Selective Application?

I often see people reference Acts 2:42 and apply it to their local church…

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. (Acts 2:42)

That seems to be a good summary of how the early church functioned and how the church today should function. I don’t think you would get much disagreement from anyone on that although we certainly can dispute over how that should look! That raises a question for me, one I have raised before. If Acts 2: 42 is a guide for the church (I agree that it is), what about Acts 2: 44-45, just two verses later and clearly part of the same thought…

And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. (Acts 2: 44-45)

If Acts 2:42 summarizes how the church should function, shouldn’t Acts 2:44-45 likewise guide our practice? Is there a difference in application from verse 42 to verses 44 and 45? If Acts 2:42 is applicable as a guide to the church, should Acts 2: 44-45 also be our guide?

What are the differences or aren’t there any? Even the most tradition bound and institutionalized local church typically does something that fulfills, at least in name, “The Big Four” in Acts 2:42 but I have yet to find too many Christians that function even in a peripheral sense what we see in 44-45.