"And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers."
After receiving the gospel and being baptized, these people followed a pattern of church life that preceded the spreading of the gospel throughout the world and should be an example for believers today. They key feature of the new believers' lives was their balance. They "continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship," notice how they didn't simply just harp on each others' exegesis and made sure they believed in the exact things that the apostles' taught and went on their way, nor though did they make fellowship and their relationships an idol where they ignored doctrine because it made "divisions", but they had an excellent balance of both doctrine and fellowship.
These two grounds, biblical doctrine and fellowship, were the two pillars set up by Christ to strengthen and stabilize His church. The early believers didn't allow fellowship lap over doctrine, leaving this young movement simply a social movement rather than a spiritual, much like a style fad that dies over at the end of a generation. But neither did they let doctrine engulf over fellowship (not denying that doctrine comes up more important than fellowship, and in other ways defines and establishes fellowship), making this movement just a hard, puffed up, intellectual, elitist religion that doesn't fell the need to love and reach out to people. Through the Holy Spirit, these believing babes in this new faith "continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship," and like two tectonic plates, drove toward each other, uniting to an upward advance towards the heavens, creating the history shaking, sinner reconciling, Christ centered mountain called Christianity.
Application: As a person who's somewhat introverted and intellectually bent, I tend to be more doctrinal than most Christians today. Though this is good, I can somewhat be forgetful about fellowship in which I should be steadfastly continuing in. I need to simply be around believers more and develop eternal relationships with the fellow members of the Body of Christ. It would help me to schedule out my time to where I have a chance to be around believers more.
