fellowship around the apostles’ teaching, common meals, and prayer, the practice of free sharing is evidence of salvation through the power of the Spirit. Believers are not only brought to agree with teaching about Jesus; they are fundamentally changed in the way in which they live, demonstrated in extraordinary generosity and concern for the well-being of others. It is easy for evangelicals to affirm the descriptive nature of this text but then ignore the fact that the text does provide a general
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