Christians and the "Main Streem"

I love it when people, organizations and media outlets propagate Christian values, causes and such even when they may not be necessarily propagating "The Gospel." The difficulty for those of us from the Evangelical Christian Faith tends to surface when we are not either promoting the particular value or lending the cause credence. We just look (and sometimes are) Hippocrates from either ignoring the Biblical premise or "devaluing" the premise by our silence. A couple of good examples of this I have found are: 1) From Minnesota Public Radio - They have a news series on Religion in Public Life and I just read a "faith story" from Emily Nerland that was encouraging and very applicable to anyone's (especially a Christians) daily life. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199804/06_newsroom_religion/docs/commentary_nerland.shtml

2) I just watched a clip from the Ellen DeGenerous Show as she was interviewing Dr. Wayne Dyer and through out the interview he spoke of how focusing on compassion just one hour a week is proven to help our physical bodies with the additional release of serotonin. To me this is fascinating simply because Jesus is all over this "love issue" and "compassion" to our fellow man.

Now I realize that following directives that may be very positive but not based in who Christ is and wants to be in the life of an individual can be counter-productive in the scope of eternity. But, this should only encourage us to live our lives in such a fashion that people KNOW we are a Christian and WHY we do WHAT we do as a direct result of that relation with Jesus. When someone chooses to be a Christ-follower because of the positives just seems to be they way Jesus propagated His Father's love. Jesus seemed very successful in this process.