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When service becomes transactional

I volunteer at the food bank every weekend because it makes me feel useful but I wonder if I am just trying to earn my way into heaven.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The need to justify one's existence can transform genuine compassion into spiritual bargaining.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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