Comunhão com os irmãos
A comunhão com os irmãos é marca da igreja verdadeira. Os cristãos primevos perseveravam na comunhão — partindo pão, orando e encorajando-se mutuamente.
Comunhão verdadeira
Perseveravam na doutrina dos apóstolos e na comunhão. A comunhão autêntica envolve amor sacrificial e acolhimento mútuo.
A Song of Degrees.
Behold now, bless ye the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord. May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless thee out of Sion.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living.
Two are better than one, seeing they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and there is not a second to lift him up. Also if two should lie together, they also get heat: but how shall one be warmed alone? And if one should prevail against him, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken.
Amor fraternal
Amai-vos com amor fraternal sincero. Encorajem-se mutuamente e carreguem os fardos uns dos outros.