The church has a way of focusing on what people do, rather than who people are.

Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."

It’s as if we have a tendency to forget that before Jesus, we were not just filthy, but in a way, we were filth. What a person does is incidental to who they actually are.

The church needs to focus on spiritual transformation, and allow the superficial to follow.