Indifference to the poor, therefore, reveals poor worship. “You honor the altar at church,” John says, “because the body of Christ rests upon it. But those who are themselves the very body of Christ you treat with contempt and you remain indifferent when you see them perishing.” No person can grow in godliness unless he serves his brethren. It is not enough to worship at the altars of the church. The true altars are the physical bodies of real men and women. A teacher for the ages John Chrysostom