To someone who hasn't had the actual experience of living with Christianity on a daily basis, some of its goals and ideals might be considered rather impractical. On the one hand, most people could probably agree that it's relatively reasonable to want to get along with your neighbor—even perhaps to love your neighbor. But what about the Christian demand to love your enemies, or to do good to them that persecute you, or to bless them that curse you and hate you? Well, that's a different matter altogether, isn't it?
Many might feel that it doesn't make much sense to try to live the Christian's way; it's too easy to be taken advantage of. Look around you, they would argue; obviously there just isn't room for such an approach of unselfish love in today's hard-nosed, get-what-you-can-while-you-can society.
Or is there?
