Do Jehovah’s Witnesses display the fruitage of love illustrated by Jesus’ parable of the good Samaritan? To teach about love thy neighbour, Christ deliberately chose a Samaritan, a man of another nation, whose religion many of them despised, a man towards which many of them felt superior in their righteousness.
Jesus practiced what he taught. He shared meals and was a guest in homes of people with whom the religious organisation believed He or they should never have set foot. For this he was vilified and denounced as a man gluttonous and given to drinking wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners (Matthew
In the years before the New Testament was compiled, the pagan Emperor, Julian worked hard to get his subjects to honour his gods, but failed. Julian’s ancient writings give us the best indication of how Gods early Christian witnesses behaved to their brethren, and also those non-believers. Julian referred to Christians as atheists and godless Galileans for they worshiped one invisible God and denied his gods. Julian wrote:
Atheism [ie Christian faith] has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and for their care and burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar, and that the godless Galileans care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help that we should render them.
This account testifies that early Christians took Jesus Christs teachings and lived their lives accordingly. I know of many individuals or groups of Christians who dont distinguish between those inside or outside their own beliefs. They follow Christ’s example.