“The purpose of charity is not merely to cause a proper motivation for charitable acts toward other people. … The ultimate purpose is to make Christ’s followers like him… .
“The ultimate purpose of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to cause the sons and daughters of God to become as Christ is. … We can give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. If our vertical relationship with God is complete, then, by the fruit of that relationship, the horizontal relationship with our fellow beings will also be complete. We then act charitably toward others, not merely because we think we should, but because that is the way we are” (Hafen, Broken Heart, 196–97).