The beginning of something is one of its most critical places. Get the beginning wrong, and the rest will never be what it could have been. Such was the case with the early church. The believers came together to take care of one another, but there was one couple who only wanted to look like they were generous. They didn’t actually want to BE generous. That is why God dealt with them in the way that he did, I think: not because he wanted to scare everyone into following Christ correctly, but because it was important for the early church to understand that what they did still resonated in the heavenly places.