Obligations of Christ's Church
Salvation, then Service
Do you think congregations have an obligation to explain how to be saved to the unsaved who come to them for charity? I'm assuming it's exceedingly simple to do so (do Romans 10:9-13, because you believe the 4 things listed in 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8 [as per Romans 10:14a]) - just a few minutes could tell our Master's purpose beyond His love in feeding the poor and His love in more fully explaining the morality of the Law to ancient Israel (and Jesus doesn't mean a metaphor of how social structures are the real causes of evil, like Walter Rauschenbusch said).
Do you see any Scriptural latitude to explain how (almost all?) Christian charities are legitimate in *purposefully never* telling them that they need the Savior (even more than they need a sandwich)?
It seems simple to order eternal salvation as distinctly more important than any number of meals, so the obligations are separate and ordered. These organizations - as a principle, it seems, and obviously in practice (usually even when directly asked!) - never, ever tell the gospel in any visible way (and mainly don't know how to!), which causes Christ's main purpose to seem like it's about something other than salvation. It makes Jesus seem like a waiter of tables and identifies with the social gospel, which wrongly commandeers Christ from His express purpose of coming here, which is the creation of a way for fallen humans to be saved from death, which is the natural consequence of our sin. It makes Him into a perfecter of fallen human society, which is just exactly what the World is trying to do now in it's supposed utopian Globalism.
Instead of Jesus making a way to save our human spirits from the effect of sin (which is far and away the primary obligation of the worldwide Church), it seems to cover up the effects of sin by showing the care of human society as the effective element that mends souls, but the care of human society does not progress any thing (even our good works are like used menstrual cloths). So, by focusing on the effect of kindness to the exclusion of its cause, salvation and a new nature through rebirth, the cause of salvation seems to disappear, leaving only the outcome, which human care cannot really stand without Christ's salvation, because Satan's kingdom hates and controls, and it only cares as a pretense and tool. The World seems to be trying to outflank the Church concerning kindness, but kindness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit to those who are saved. Even enlightened human nature cannot keep from sinning. So, trading or subordinating salvation to service causes a total abrogation of responsibility of Christ's Church, first to the most important and, after that, to the care, too, which is only supported by the work of the Holy Spirit in Christ's Church of born-again Christians.
It just seems to me that social churches are playing into Satan's hands. If they never, ever tell the gospel to the masses - especially because the gospel is so straightforward and simple - then there's *something* wrong concerning their obligation to Christ, which is to love God first and *only then* to love self and society.
The expression of our obligation to help the poor without *ever openly* telling the gospel obscures the greater obligation of telling the gospel.