If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.
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Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.