“His desire was to move toward the Church in Acts, even to the point of bringing all things together in common and selling/using the churches wealth to feed the needy.”
Acts was a spontaneous event. I have never seen ONE attempt at that become successful. The only thing it does is frustrate grace by prodding believers into a fruitless adventure. God is not doing miracles like He did then (delusional people aside). His miraculous gifts were in full operation, even among the unruly Corinthians (proving it had nothing to do with “works”).
I’ve never understood why believers want to recreate the Acts era. You want Acts, you get sudden deaths for lying and not properly discerning the Lord’s body, too! You get transition instead of the full stability found in Ephesians.
Doctrine for us is in Paul’s letters, not Acts (or the Gospels). The Catholic Church has never gotten this right, regardless of the Pope, because doing so would destroy it’s carefully built Labyrinth. Paul is anathema to every works religion on the planet...because JESUS sent him to be so!
I’ve never understood the kind of “Christianity” that sets Paul up in opposition to Jesus and Jesus’ teaching in the Gospels. Neither would Paul.