"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care" is the simple contemporary axiom that comes to mind. The lesson discourse points toward a problem then which remains a problem today. The infatuation with the ability to speak a word of life or to be a spiritual wonder fascinates the church.
However, the church can appear callous to the needs and trials that plague the lost. A spiritual experience of a visitor or candidate for salvation is only add strong ad the interest shown in the circumstance of the follower.
A pastor friend of mine was lamenting that his membership had sharply declined abd He wasn't sure why. I wanted to tell him. It may be because, while you're excited about all the events (worship services) you have on your church calendar, two of your deacons have lost their jobs, subsequently had automobiles repossessed abd have had to move in with family members. When things were well for them, they were the center of activity in the church. When difficulty hit, they were displaced and others embraced. The church has made little effort to support, job referral, compassion basket etc.
They speak of the fine preaching and the fellowship. But they feel left in an island of distress while the church chases its organizational agenda.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but demonstrate no love, I'm as a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal.
Love is what impacts lives and love is what sustains families through the most difficult of times.