A Bunch of Do-Gooders

It’s no secret that Christians are known for doing good deeds for those less fortunate. Hospitals, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, shelters for battered women and pregnant teens, AIDS hospice, and on and on are ubiquitous throughout the world - solely because of the efforts of Christians.

Atheists cry foul and say that they would never brag about the good that they would do if they ever decided to do something good. Atheism + is trying to force that kind of life on them but it's meeting some pretty stiff resistance. Not because atheists can't do good. They just don't want to leave organised religion because it tells them what to do only to join organised Atheism and have it tell them what to do.

“Can’t I just fuck around and watch tv if I want?” was the lament of one atheist on his blog in response to a call for atheists to go out and give blood on the World Day of Prayer. Regardless, Christians seem compelled to help others. That shouldn’t surprise. “For we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10

Atheists might be able to do good from their own character. Not so for Christians.  It's been said that God chooses the smallest, meanest, vilest of humans. That's certainly true in my case.

Like salvation itself, the drive to help others, that Christians experience (the more important Jesus is to us the deeper this drive feels) is from beginning to end a product of Christ Jesus. It is not of ourselves so that any might boast. 

Freely you have received - Freely give.