In the text from Acts 4, we get a glimpse of life in the Christian community after the resurrection event. The text offers some answers to the question of T. S. Eliot:

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?
What will you answer? "We all dwell together
To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"?1

What makes the church community different from other communities?

In the first place, we read that "... the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus ..." (v. 33). Luke's mention of the testimony of the apostles recalls the earlier testimony of Paul himself in his first letter to the Corinthians, which he was passing on the message about the good news that he had already received…