By the way, excellent article. Each article I find like this, is one less step I have to take in an attempt of making this a reality. It makes me not feel so unrealistic. In the early church it was normal based off the teachings of the Jubilee Lev. 25, they had heard about it since birth.
Time + resources + self = 0
Time + resources + Gospel = Disciples / eternal fruit
I believe common is Christianity. Common is the cross. The bishops of the early church made 0 profit as it appears in the Didache and other writings. They used the first fruits as their sustenance which was a “daily bread”, manna type system where it was consumed by sufficiency and the excess went to the poor or needy. They had no reason to defraud the church. This is how the Gospel spread so rapidly. The church was missional because the church was self-less. Food and raiment was sufficient 1 Tim. 6

“The Jews were constrained to a regular payment of tithes; Christians, who have liberty, assign all their possessions to the Lord, bestowing freely not the lesser portions of their property, since they have the hope of greater things Irenaeus

Tertullian in his Apology, writing in A.D. 165 says:
“Fraternal stability of our community of goods, our brotherhood, how it knits, while the Roman system of individualism disintegrates. . . no tragedy makes a noise about our brotherhood. The family possessions which generally destroy brotherhood among you, create fraternal bonds among us. One, in mind and soul, we do not hesitate to share our earthly goods with one another. All things except our wives are common among us.” — Tertullian Apology. Ch. 3

St. Chrysostom often expresses the resolute opinion that private property is the root of all Church disasters and checks. “It is not for lack of miracles that the Church is staid, it is because we have forsaken the angelic life of Pentecost and fallen back on private property. If we lived as they did, with all things common, we should soon convert the whole world, with no need of miracles at all.” — Homily 25 Acts.Again in a sermon at Constantinople (Homily II.):

There are more of these quotes. Most believe that the common Gospel that was displayed after Pentecost ended just as fast as it started but I do not see that in the early writings. Many things that we are taught today are stains left over from the filthiness of the Constantinian anti-christian takeover.

My wife and I keep praying that we’ll be able to gather a community like this one day.

Thanks for writing.