If you profess faith in Christ, it is vital to do soul and life searching to see what kind of Christian you are.  In this post, I would specifically set before you the call to center on the Good News with an attending heart for good works.  I am just finishing a book entitled Spurgeon and the Poor which ends with these words.

Christians are the people who help.  They are those who show compassion and care for the needy.  As Spurgeon said, “To me a follower of Jesus means a friend of man…Wide as the reign of sorrow is the stretch of his love.” Christians embrace the needs of the poor, the afflicted and the oppressed.  They seek to bind up the wounds of the suffering as they tell them about salvation in Jesus.  They work to release captives as they preach to them about the one who brings freedom from sin’s bondage.  They advocate for the oppressed as they point men and women to the Savior who delivers from oppression.  Christians work to undo and beat back sin’s effects as they preach the good news of the one who is coming to make all things new.  Spurgeon preached a gospel of forgiveness and redemption in Christ that brought in its train a host of good works.  This is a ministry worth emulating.” [Spurgeon and the Poor, page 203].