NOTES for Act 6:1-7
We see that as the number of people in the early Church grows (the community already numbered about 8,000 people), the "amount" of love per person, if love can even be measured, decreases. Some of the "nonlocal" widows were forgotten or overlooked in the distribution of food and other necessities of life. This does not mean that people stop loving and love disappears, but it does say that those who come in are bringing with them less love and more sin than is needed to maintain the community's overall level of "burning." Yes, every person is sinful, including the one who joins the Church. And each of us, when we came into the Church, brought our share of sin and our share of love. For we know only One who is alien to sin and brought into this world only love...
But none of this means that one should not go to Church, so that there will not be more sin in it. We come to the Church and to God in order to be freed from the darkness within us; each of us is a member of the Church, without whom it cannot be complete (see 1 Cor 12:14-22). And the Church needs each of us, just as Christ needs the love and acknowledgment of every person.