Acts 2:42-47 (Modern American Version)

The “Fellowship” of the Believers

⁴²They devoted themselves to Rick Warren’s teaching and to the megachurch parking-lot traverse, to the breaking of small tasteless crackers and to special music. ⁴³Everyone was filled with boredom, and no wonders or miraculous signs were done by anyone at all. ⁴⁴All the believers were isolated and had nothing in common. ⁴⁵Hoarding their possessions and goods, they gave erratically, and only out of guilty feelings. ⁴⁶Every once in a while they carefully exited their suburban mansions, going to one of a million disparate meeting places, and avoided eye contact with the people around them. They broke bread in their cars on the way to soccer practice and ate apart from one another with troubled and lonely hearts, ⁴⁷wondering where God was and suffering both the scorn and the indifference of the people. And the Lord took away from their number daily those who believed.