The most hated command of Jesus... (video)

Endtime Survivors said:

Well, if you'd like to respond to anything from the video, feel free.

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I did..I said it feels like a promotion for communal living and history shows that's not a great idea.

I became a christian because I was evangelized by a group that practised this communal living and intense evangelism. They were extreme, but everyone in my city knew who they were though they were only 40 In their first 10 years they went from 30 to 100.000 worldwide, and that was mostly in the western countries. They were always great inspiration to me. The name of the church group is International Churches of Christ. They dont practise the same way of life at the moment, they all got married and got settled eventually, but I am hoping they will return to those former deeds.

Have you quit your job?

Since I read this thread I have been doing some studying on this topic. The commandments of Christ to forsake all in order to follow Him have given my heart great trouble in the past and even now. Sometimes I wonder If I am really carrying this out.

That being said, it is definitely implied in quite a few places that it is not unbecoming of Christians to have a home.
Philemon 1:2,3
To the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:22a, 34
What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in?...
But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgement. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

As I write this I am still studying the topic, and It is apparent that there are so many examples of Christians living in a house. Just search house or home on blueletterbible.org

This all being said, it does seem that the way that early christians lived together is very lacking in my own life. I gather with other believer on Sundays and Wednesdays, but have for some time now felt like I am lacking something that the early christians had. It does seem that the houses that are spoken of in all the books after the gospels were possibly filled with christians, which would go along very well with what Jesus said.

Mark 10:29,30
Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospels, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time- houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions- and in the age to come, eternal life.

Endtime Survivors said:

(Note: There have been three additional videos tacked on to this video. These are clarifications and responses to critiques the author received to the first videos).

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1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parent; for this is good and acceptable to God.

1 Timothy 5:8
But if any does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:9,10
Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

1 Timothy 5:14
Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, ...