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The Bible makes plain here that this is not a communism of law or external pressure. In fact, Peter, speaking to Ananias about his property, stressed: “While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?” (Acts 5:4). This sharing is not law, but true love and true communication of the whole man to whole man, across the whole spectrum of what humanity is. The same things happened further abroad. Gentile Christians gave money to Paul to carry to Christian Jews. Why? So that there would be a sharing of material possessions. This is ten thousand times removed from the dead, cold giving of most Christians. This is not a cold, impersonal act as bare duty, but a sharing of the whole man with the whole man. True Christian giving is in love and communication across the whole framework of the interplay between whole men.
True Spirituality - Francis Schaeffer
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