Actually no, Christianity is centered on the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
Without loving the Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, we cannot love our neighbors as ourselves.
One comes before, even as it is simultaneous to the other.
Social work, put before love and worship of God, is, and always has been, a failure.
You write as those Christ and good works were in conflict: they are not.
My contention was that an obsession with ending the world is incompatible with a focus on good works to improve a world expected to be ongoing for a long time.