Barnabas Ministries UK

                                           Rev. A. Linford

WHAT IS CHRISTIAN CHARITY?

“Follow after charity” – 1 Corinthians 14:1

Christian charity is all that is implied in the term ”love”, the essence of benevolence and care. Let us put it into verse:

CHRISTIAN CHARITY:-

It is silence – when your words would hurt;

It is patience – when your neighbours curt;

It is deafness when a scandal bows;

It is thoughtfulness for another’s woes;

It is promptness when duty calls;

It is courage when misfortune falls;

It in support when means run dry;

It is comfort when sufferers cry;

It is action when deeds avail;

It is diction when words prevail;

It is giving when poverty mounts;

It is living when experience counts;

It is praying when burdens press;

It is moving to meet another’s distress;

It is loving the unloved and unlovable;

It is girding the distraught and the gullible;

It’s setting exemplary behaviour;

It is following the steps of the Saviour.

HOW CAN l TREAD SUCH A NOBLE WAY?

I CAN TRUST. I CAN TRY, I CAN PRAY. 

But our Christian charity must not be merely poetic, it must be truly pragmatic. Deeds must never be lost in words, or action smothered by sentiment. The charity never fails to respond to the needful care of and attention to others.