The last thing I'd like to suggest about why good people need Jesus is that good people need the church.
I know church can be triggering for many people. But it would be good for your heart to find a loving faith community in your town doing good work for the neighborhood and city.
As I've written about before, modern society has been stripped of its mediating institutions, local groups where people mixed, shared life, and did good community work together. Robert Putnum's seminal book Bowling Alone has documented the decline. In modern life, without local mediating institutions, there exists only atomized individuals, separate and alone, and the huge shadow of the federal government. I've made you a visual contrasting the two kinds of life:
Without local mediating institutions the goodness of good people becomes wholly politicized. This is because, as shown in the picture above on the left, the federal government is the only game in town. And while politics is good and necessary work, politics is soul sucking and life draining if it is the only thing you do. This is mainly due to 1) politics is a zero-sum game, swinging you back and forth between electoral wins and losses, 2) politics is driven by national issues divorced from your local neighborhood, and 3) politics lacks weekly, face to face engagement in expressions of love, care, and service.
By contrast, as seen above in the picture on the right, goodness flowing through local work and communities, like with a church, provides interpersonal and intimate routes to express your goodness. Your care is being expressed directly, face to face. And this fills the soul.
And churches are better than non-profits here in that churches also exist to care about you. Sometimes you're the one in need. Sick in the hospital or recovering at home. Needing a bill to be paid. Catching a ride. Needing to move. Some child care. People to listen to your problems and share your worries. Because we all need to be loved. Even good people.
