Pentecostal<\/a> community is designed to look like. Put differently, the wonderful description of the Pentecostal community in Acts 2:42-47 is concrete manifestation of the Sermon on the Mount.
\nA Jesus Creed life looks like someone who is salt or someone who is light, someone whose life of good works leads others to give glory to God (Matt 5:16). Such persons are persons of influence, influence in the righteous and just and peace and love direction.
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<\/em> is called \u201cThe Jesus Creed becomes the Sermon on the Mount.\u201d