Here is a question for us to address.
Does DOING Christian things MAKE you a Christian?
Doing Christian things won't make you a Christian, however, if you are a Christian, doing Christian things can help you understand what it means to be a Christian, and can help with renewing your mind.
Investing yourself (time, effort, resources) into others, even if your heart isn't in it, will help them, and your heart will follow. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
But I understand what you are talking about. I believe God intends for us to live in daily, moment by moment communion with Him. As we commune with God, we are changed by His love and faithfulness to be loving and faithful. Out of that love and faithfulness we serve others. We are both Mary and Martha, and Mary has the better part.
We are to be careful to maintain good works.
Titus 3:8 KJV
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
So we mustn't neglect the "doing", but again I recognize what you are addressing. We can become so caught up in the doing that we aren't communing with God.
Jesus told the messenger to the church at Ephesus, You've left your first love, go back and do the things you did at the first.
Doing can "kick-start" our
being, when we've stopped being what we should be.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 KJV
17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18) But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
(a mirror) the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
I think
@Enoch111 summed it up well, being = doing = being. Because we are Christians, we will do Christian things. And in doing Christian things, we become more Christian-like.
Ephesians 4:13-14 KJV
13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Here, spiritual maturity is measured in our unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, and that we are settled in a true doctrine.
A question I ask is, Considering all of our honest and sincere disagreements over various things, where do we find the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God?
2 Peter 1:5-8 KJV
5) And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6) And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7) And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8) For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faith - Virtue - knowledge - temperance - patience - godliness - These are all about what we are.
brotherly kindness - Christian love - These are about what we do.
Great question!
Much love!