We are new parents and we feel completely isolated. Does a church community actually help with something like this?

“God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”

The psalm is a processional song celebrating God's march through the wilderness, and tucked into a list of what he does is the line that he sets the solitary in families. The Hebrew pictures God placing people into households, deliberately, as an act of provision. Isolation is treated here as a condition God moves people out of, and the means he generally uses is other people rather than a change of feeling.

“And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,”

Luke's description of the earliest church is startlingly domestic. They were in the temple, yes, but they were also in one another's houses eating together daily. The community that turned the ancient world upside down ran largely on shared meals in ordinary homes. That is a form of church life a couple with a newborn can genuinely take part in.