Is Christianity about being a good person? by Bibi Babatunde-Ikotun Is Christianity about being a good person? Is it a religion based on moralistic teachings focused on only doing good things to earn God's favour? Here's the truth works-based Christianity focuses on people working to earn favours with God. It's about how well you serve God, how much charity you do, how well you pay tithe and much more work. The only thing this kind of gospel does is make you think you're good but you're not based on God's standards. It makes you think that God owes you whereas, God owes nobody! Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin Here is the gist, only God is good. He is the one who has the standard of being good. By His standards, we are not good. We can't measure up to God's standard of being good on our own works. You don't take the law and try to ke