Charity

Parent: Mere Christianity: Leaders' Notes Series

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Chapter 10: "Hope"

Hope is one of the Theological virtues

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Chapter 9: "Charity"

We touched on Charity in chapter 7, Forgiveness, but this chapter goes deeper.

The modern meaning of 'Charity' is given to the poor, or 'alms.' The original meaning was much wider, and giving to the poor was a part of Charity. Charity is a 'state of the will.'

Charity means 'Love, in the Christian sense'. But love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.