In every aspect of the common life a way of living had to result here which in all things was in keeping with the perfect love and unity of Jesus Christ. The first Christians literally had everything in common. Anyone with possessions was filled by an urge to give them over to the stewardship of apostolic love. No one had anything which did not belong without stint and with reserve to the community. What the church owned, however, was there for God and therefore for all men, just as with Jesus himself.
Generous love can never be exclusive.
The open door and the open heart were essential characteristics of this first group of Jesus-Christians. They could approach anyone. They won the love and trust of their fellow men, although at the same time their unmixed spirit of love brought down upon them the bitter hatred and deadly hostility of all other powers. And so it was that the many were one heart and one soul. They drew their life from the one Spirit of Jesus Christ which, unmixed with any other spirit, entirely filled their hearts.