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DeWitt, Presbyterian minister at Princeton, observed that charity and Gospel witness aren’t separate pursuits—they’re the same thing. Modern Christianity, displaying remarkable ingenuity, has split them into warring camps. Quite the theological achievement.

But how can you help the whole person?

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Ellinwood extols medical missionaries who brought vaccines, drainage, sanitation, and anesthetics to the developing world—heritage of all nations. Was this distraction from the gospel or its fruit? Certain Christians today pursue a rather different conquest, whose benefits appear less universally distributed.

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Nicholas Byfield was a Calvinistic, Puritan minister. Here he speaks of compassion as being a proof of our spiritual state, citing bible passages about generosity, watering other peoples, aiding those needing warmth, visiting orphans and widows. These qualities in us prove that we are true neighbors and good Samaritans

Are you following religious leaders who point to other spiritual metrics at the expense of the biblical ones?
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