You will know them by their fruit.
You don't need to know a Christian by his fruit. The key is to know the church by it's fruit. If the church produces bad Christians then go to a different church. You can easily tell if a church is loving when choosing a church as an outsider since how they treat you is easy to determine. It's easy to love those who love you. What's hard for them to love you if they don't know you so if a church treats you the outsider with love then it's probably a good church. The Bible isn't about confusion. It's confusing to tell whether a christian himself bears good fruit or not. We aren't here to judge individuals. What purpose does that serve other than to make us judgemental? You know a church by it's fruit. That way if the members treat you badly you aren't judging them you are judging the doctrine of the church that produced them. There's no judgement involved of people only the doctrine which is inanima...