The Simple Life (No, not Paris Hilton's)

The first Church is described as follows:

"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." ACTS 2:42

That's it. We can make it as complicated as we want, but we ought to at least be doing what they did. And probably not much more, not in terms of Actions but in terms of the basic structure of our fellowship.

Sure, there are activities that require the kinds of organization and bureaucracy that we've all come to know and love, but it seems that it should be ancillary to the above model, an addendum devoted to the specific actions it is needed for. It should not flow its top heavy man made bloat back to the "simple life" of the Church either.