There always was a sacrificial lamb of some kind for charity purposes. Christendom, in particular, was not always hard hearted by doctrine.
The only difference was in how the lamb was furnished.
I think Christendom got suckered out of its charity role, its people being lured into a system (SS at first) that would let them say they gave at the office (in their payroll taxes).
This is where Christendom should have stood on the honor of the Lord God of Hosts. Not even Franklin D. Roosevelt deserves more honor than that. It didn’t. America slumped into a secular hell, where secular leftism was a poor substitute for sacred liberality.
The church ought to know that charity is an excellent platform for gospel. But only if it gives under church auspices.
Good post, you are right of course.
When I was a child I spent a few months in a Catholic hospital (rheumatic fever).
The care, and the nuns, were wonderful...and there were volunteers everywhere.
After the collapse of Christianity here, the most likely church charity is to Illegals.