when our christianity outdoes our Christ ..

at Mark 14 Jesus is in the home of a leper, of all people ..
(“Unclean! Unclean!” was the required cry of a leper in public, warning passersby to maintain a distance .. stay away from me; I'm dirty .. it's likely that this mentality infected Jewish society via their religion, and the religious reasoning was that God blessed the religious with health and wealth, cursing the 'wicked' and the 'sinner' with poverty and disease ..)

while there, a woman pours a costly oil over Jesus' head, honouring him ..
his disciples are 'indignant'! they say the expensive oil could have been sold, the proceeds used for the benefit of the poor
(this event is the context of his statement “you will always have the poor with you”, and not as an excuse for christians not helping the poor, which is an immediate denial of your christianity ..)

Jesus tells them to stop bothering her .. he takes the opportunity to right their attitude on him and the priority of him in their life
“you will have the poor with you always, but you will not always have me here.. she did what she could – she has anointed my body in anticipation of my burial, and it is beautiful; her story will be told wherever the gospel is preached ..”

(this is the point at which Judas finally decides that Jesus is a fraud, and offers to betray him to the chief priests – he finally accepts that Jesus is not going to be their saviour from Roman oppression ..)

the point Jesus is (again) making is that we are to love him more than we love even our parents or children, that we are to lose our life to find it in him, that we are to attitude following him above even life itself – denying our self, taking our cross with us as we do life ..
(cross, a peculiarly definitive statement to Jews under Rome's boot)

yes, love your neighbour as your own self, one of the two great commands (=help the poor), but do that in the context of loving God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all your strength – then you will be able to love your neighbour in truth

this woman had the appropriate posture to the person of Jesus – to honour him ..

let's us ..