//Most Christians are compelled by love. Their heart is in the right place.

Many Christians are supporting the financially poor, both in Australia and overseas, spreading a spiritual message to others and providing other forms of assistance to those who need it.//

Most people are compelled by love. Their heart is in the right place.

Many people are supporting the financially poor, both in Australia and overseas, and providing other forms of assistance to those who need it.

There, fixed.

To ttbn.

<There are people who are Christians; then there are people who call themselves Christians.>

I don't think that's our fall to make. Who is a Christian and who only says they are. After all some Christians are still Christian by their belief and hope in Jesus and what He did, but thay might be either young in their maturity to live up to Jesus's teachings, or or they are full of misunderstandings but still Christian.

Only Jesus will say who are really His and who isn't. But what we can do regardless is to teach. Help encourage or correct our brothers and sisters and hope for them all.

Being a Christian is a tremendous claim: a Christian is willing, if necessary, to die on the cross or endure equivalent sufferings for the love of all others.

Christian churches are made of people who aspire to become Christians.

NNS,

I stand by what I said. BTW, Jesus is not to be confused with God.

Our own righteousness is as filthy rags. It will only ever be the righteousness of Jesus Christ that will save. The Christian influence creates the most civilized societies while feminism and Marxism create a very selfish self centered society. Hashtag mefirst

Christians - their heart is in the right place?

I think that we should not just single out one
particular religion - but perhaps we should look
at all religions and the good work that they do?

We can start with Christian organisations who
do great works. For example there's the Saint Vincent de
Paul Society. "Vinnies" as it's known in Australia - is
a Catholic lay organisation which helps the homeless and
the poor. And we have many of those. Contributing factors
to their poverty are - drought, rural poverty, mental-health
issues, depression, violence, addiction, family and relationship
breakdown, and financial pressure. Many people are on the street
because of the closure of public mental institutions. They suffer
from moderate to sever psychiatric illnesses, often linked to
drug and alcohol problems. Vinnies provides help to those most
in need and "need" is the only test applied.

What is extraordinary is the range of services offered by Vinnies.
Then there's the Salvation Army - which provides similar
services. Those organisations represent Christianity at its best.
There are also other organisations like - The Sacred Heart Mission
which provides a three course lunch for needy people every day in
the "red-light" district of St. Kilda in Melbourne.

There's also Father Chris Riley who began his work for youth in
Sydney. He founded and developed "Youth Off The Streets" (YOTS).
And there's numerous other people and organisations who do
incredible work.

Therefore, in all the copious debates about any religion and
our society - one of the key questions that we should ask is -
where would our society be without the good work that people
and organisations that form such a vital part and contribute
so much to our society be? If judgements are to be made -
perhaps actions should speak louder than words - and credit
should be given where credit is due?

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