Jesus Christ wants to express His character of goodness
in the social community of the Church. The Church is the
"Body of Christ" intended to collectively express the
character of Christ. The Church is the "People of God"
expressing the character of God's goodness. Paul writes,
"Let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are
of the household of faith" (Gal. 6:10). There is particular
emphasis on God's goodness being expressed in the context
of the Church, for it is there that God wants to demonstrate
the interpersonal social community that He intended for
man as they allow the Creator to function within His
creatures. In the Church God wants to show that man can
dwell together with man in "peace," when they allow God's
goodness to be expressed one to another. The Church is to
be the one place that demonstrates how God's people can
get along with one another in goodness when each person is
receptive to God's love and goodness being expressed to
the other, despite diversity of race, sex, age, nationality,
intelligence, personality type, difference of opinions, etc.
The distinctive of Christianity and Christian behavior is
the awareness that all goodness is derived from God in
personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and that all
goodness is behaviorally expressed by the dynamic of
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