Don’t sweat it brother. I know where your coming from since I used to be protestant before I became Orthodox. However, having a different perspective shouldn’t cause us to not respect, and honor our forefathers in the faith. I hope I didn’t cause initial offense with the (sarc), but I was worried that your post misrepresented your actual perspective. I know evangelicals would not disagree with the Lord when he says to those who didn’t clothe, visit, or feed him that he doesn’t know them.
There seems to no point in bringing up the fact that this command was given to the Jews before the adoption of the Gentiles into the fold of Jesus Christ thru faith, without works, since you folks can't seem to reconcile the two ideas...
So let's look at what the author says about Gregory...
This great saint looked upon the smiles and frowns of the world with indifference, because spiritual and heavenly goods wholly engrossed his soul.
Spiritual and heavenly goods wholly engrossed Jesus Christ but HE certainly wasn't indifferent to the smiles and frowns of the world...
Obviously unlike Jesus, Greg cared nothing about the poor, the hungry, those in prison...His only concern was to follow the commands of God out of his own owed debt towards his own salvation...