his own, but they had everything in common.” Communal living is also witnessed in Jesus’s own life with his disciples. They most often moved together as a group (Matt. 8:23; Mark 6:1), took meals together (Matt. 12:1), prayed together (Luke 22:39), and ministered together (John 6:1–15). Though there is wide disparity among monastic authors regarding the exact theology and nature of vows, in essence monastic vows can be defined as a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better