08 Jan '12 09:56>
Originally posted by divegeesterI befriended two Japanese JWs in northern Japan when I lived there. We had lunch a fair few times over about an 18 month period and talked of this and that. Husband and wife. I used to cycle to our rendezvous because their car looked like it was about to croak. For their sake, I hope they counted their time with me as time off from doing "good works". As nice as their company was, I hope they had some other "good works" that they were involved in, apart from giving me their magazine and talking about their organization and the bible. But maybe it's for Christians - and not post-Christians like me - to assess the "good works" of their fellow Christians.
There is only two indicators that I know of that point to how one Christian or non-Christian should recognise a Christian, and those are: the inner witness of the spirit (e.g. Elizabeth's baby leaping in the womb) and the fruit of the spirit (note fruit is singular despite there being a list of virtues in the Bible). Not seeing that fruit does not mean that the person is not a Christian.