Some people aren't comfortable with this passage because it seems to them to be a forerunner of certain social systems which are unpopular in this country: socialism, communism, communes in general. However, let's remind ourselves that this experiment in communal living pre-dates all those unpopular living styles by many centuries. These were people who were still euphoric from the recent infusion of the Holy Spirit. Filled with love for the people around them in life, they wanted to share. They were compassionate toward those who hadn't enough, and generous to the point they were willing to give up their hard-earned possessions for the sake of the needy. We would be petty indeed to find fault with that. The problem is, of course, they were later to discover that although the Holy Spirit d…