27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
The modern Church seems to do one or the other, but not both. Your stereotypical evangelical church is big on denouncing the sinfulness of modern culture but spends more money on Sunday school literature than on helping the needy. The stereotypical mainline church is big on "social justice" but has essentially melded into a polluted culture; trying to meet those old standards of purity just gets in their way of ministering to folks.
We're supposed to do both; an anti-social Gospel doesn't work well.
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