We need to be like the church in Acts - NO!
English: Stained glass window in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, depicting a scene from the Book of Acts with St. Paul, Porcius Festus, Agrippa and Berenice (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Do you attend the perfect church? No? Well, me neither. It’s definitely not news that Christians generally think their church isn’t exactly the model of the perfect church. Everyone recognizes that there are a plethora of problems with their church, and for each problem there is a biblical solution that is both difficult and time consuming to implement, since churches are filled with people and every denomination has a joke about how many of their ilk it takes to “change a light bulb”. But, there’s one generic answer that always comes up and always sounds super spiritual: We need to be like the church in Acts! It seems like “getting back to Acts” is the standard generic answer for every question about church problems, church growth, church polity, etc. It’s the answer th