The New Testament Church

The New Testament Church had many things that were different than today. One sticks out above all the rest:

There was one church per community!

I'm not advocation that we reconcile all our denominational differences and merge into a mega church in each community, although that would be interesting. I think there should be much more communication between churches and support between ministries. We can't all go to all of each others special events. There isn't time, but if one church has a great ministry to "flat earth society" then we all should know, so that we can refer other "flat earth society" people to it.

Something that has been on my mind for a long time, since coming to the Syracuse area is a database of sorts of people with skills, knowledge, contacts that may be of use to others. We all have something that we can share with fellow believers across church lines and across ministry lines. I myself work in energy conservation, but this goes out to lay leaders in all sorts of work, and to pastors who each communicate in their circles of life. If each of us were able to commit one hour on a specific skill or knowledge of a specific item, or commit to "I have this resource available to me and I would like to make it available to others." What an impact we could have in working together.

More on this thought later.