I've always thought of it as a goal, which I don't think I've ever fully reached. But it shouldn't be for lack of trying.
***Biblical exegesis makes reasonable exceptions such as healing on the Sabbath, or aiding someone, or even an animal, in distress. ***
And yet, when two little kids wondered up to my home on a Saturday SABBATH , wet from a rainstorm, they told me they had been to several houses near the local Adventist Church, looking for help, and had been rebuffed at each one.
All the houses between mine and the church a half mile away are occupied by sabbath keeping adventists.
I posted that on FR and it lasted about 1/2 hour before being pulled as I was so mad at the self-righteous sabbath keepers who would not go out of their way to help two lost, rain soaked kids.
IT STILL MAKES ME MAD!