Pope Francis has publicly declare to be wrong those "fake Christians" who regard religion only as a "accessory" rather than as a chance to render service to humankind.
"Merely talking leads to vanity, to faking being a Christian. But no, one is not a Christian this way," Pope Francis said in his homily last Feb. 23 in the Chapel of the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican.
Pope Francis has cited the Gospel of Mathhew in which Jesus has warned those who fakes Christianity will receive the judgment from God if they do not practice wht they are preaching and turn their backs to those who are in need.
"To be a Christian means to do the will of God. And on the last day, because all of us will have one, that day, what shall the Lord ask us? Will he say: 'What you have said about me?' No! He shall ask us about the things we did," he said.
The Pope even added that meaning of "evangelical dialect between saying and doing" and encouraged the people to be sincere in showing, saying and doing their faith to God.
In addition to it, the Pope said that parents should not just say they are Catholics but must set good example of what Christian Catholics should be. He further added that they are the first teacher of the children on the gospel of God.
"May the Lord give us this wisdom to understand well where lies the difference between saying and doing, and teach us the way of doing and help us to go down that way ... May the Lord teach us this way," the Pope concluded the homily.
