True Disciples and the True Church

I've been thinking about why us latterday saints feel we are the true disciples of Christ, why we feel "this Church is true."
We seem to feel that it's obvious because we have the priesthood and the miracles from that are proof, or that we perform good works like paying our tithing so that our Church can afford to perform and provide charity on our behalf as if we aren't asked to perform charity ourselves because tithing is simply the logistical support and means by which to build a literal Zion community.
And every faith has seen documented miracles, many say this is because they are performed by the power of Satan but when the Pharisees made that argument against Jesus He said "by what power do you perform miracles?"  Meaning, I think, that God works miracles for all his children at times because he loves us unconditionally despite our short comings.  If anything else were the case, He would not have sent His only begotten to die for us to be redeemed.
I think it honestly boils down to the same mantra repeated and used by every Church to prove they are the only path to God.  Which is to say, "I know this Church is true because the spirit has told me so, my parents have told me so, the only scriptures I have read tell me so.  And I know my faith is valid but everyone else who has faith in another Church has been deceived."
Which to a certain extent is valid because ultimately all we have is our faith, if we had proof we couldn't in anyway have anything deserving of the term faith.
But Jesus laid out signs by which his true disciples would be recognized.  Regardless of what Church you belong to you can by Jesus' definition be Christian by living up to the guidelines he laid out.  Which are "My disciples will be known by their love."  Jesus said and demonstrated much about love.  He said the two greatest commandments are loving God with all your mind, with all your soul and with all your might AND the second is like it; to love your neighbor as yourself.  He also said to love your enemies and pray for those that curse you.
Many say they will pray for you when they are offended by your words or actions, but all too often it is a put down that you need their all mighty righteous selves praying for a sinner such as you.  When what I think Jesus meant by that was that we pray that their sins be pardoned, that they find their way back to God with the same concern we show our loved ones and ourselves as Jesus did for those who beat and crucified Him.
We may do well as a people to skirt the term Christian and opt for the term Christ-likes instead, if only to remind us to be Christ-like rather than fight for our right to be validated by the rest of American Christianity.  And essentially miss the point of what it means to be a true disciple.  The point isn't that you are granted entry into the cool kids club and get to exclude those you deem undesirable and unworthy of entry. The point is that you speak, act, and serve as Christ would were He here with us in the flesh today, the way He did so well during His life and ministry.
My point isn't to say we don't possess the fullness of Gospel truth but that as a Church and and a people we will not be recognized as Christians by Christ by ensuring the success of Prop 8 and denying children of God their God given free agency or by building a great and spacious building for 5 Billion dollars so we can all go buy pretty toys and clothes.
We will be recognized as true disciples, true Christians by Christ if and only if we attract the outcasts of society, if we serve them, if we love the most despised sinners amongst us back into the Kingdom and serve them as we would serve Christ because to serve the least of our brothers and sisters is to serve Christ,  "in as much as you have done it unto the least of these my bretheren, ye have done it unto me."
But if we are the true disciples, why aren't we attracting the outcasts amongst us?  Because we ostracize and judge them as much as the pharisees of Jesus' life time judged him for consorting with sinners and those who "were not worthy of God."
See, we all sin and thanks to the atonement we are all forgiven.  We need only accept the path Jesus walked and laid out for us to benefit from the gift of the atonement.  Yet far too many feel as if the atonement doesn't apply to everyone, I mean rapist, criminals, drug users or whoever commits the sins you hate most.  But  the scriptures say Jesus was sent to redeem mankind, not select individuals.
Why do we feel that some sins are fine but some are deal breakers, or worse that any sin is a deal breaker and makes you unworthy of God.  Repentance is the solution.  The atonement is the answer, we are all entitled to it.  Why do so many believe some are unworthy of the atonement?  Because they sin differenty and therefore must be shunned out of the Church and our families like homeless gay youth kicked out of their homes by their good "Christian" parents? We all sin in some way, it doesn't matter when you make it into the Kingdom, just that you accept the atonement, repent for your sins and make and effort to connect with God before judgment day.
The laborers in the vineyard illustrates that point succinctly.
In the parable a vineyard owner, representing God, hires laborers from the morning til the evening.  And in the end he gives all the laborers the same wages even though some had been working and some just only got there and barely did any work.  The message is that all get the same reward if they make it to the master of the vineyard in time.  The same is true of the Kingdom, if you repent and accept the atonement before judgment day, you have made it my friend. 
"And the last shall be the first, and the first shall be last."
I feel this means that those in authority who all too often develop a holier than thou attitude who also become very judgmental towards others to the point that they use the Gospel and scriptures as weapons to degrade, to vilify, to dismiss those who simply sin differently than they do because those who feel they are more worthy often feel that the rest of us are unworthy and they appoint themselves as watchmen on the tower deciding who's in and who's out.  They may get in, but they will be the last, whereas those who suffer at their hands will reap their reward first as Lazarus did in the Lazarus and the Rich man parable.
Even if we possess the Gospel in all it's fullness it is hollow without the action and effort of Christlike service, love and forgiveness given to all we cross paths with and all those we share our home, city, state, nation and globe with.
All I'm saying is we are know more for our judgmental qualities as most Christians in this country are but more so thanks to the Prop 8 debacle, than we are for the Christlike qualities we possess.  We degrade and vilify the homeless as if they have committed a crime by being so poor they are reduced to the streets, or by being so mentally ill that they fall into street life.
How can we worship a homeless man, and his mostly homeless followers on Sunday only to berate, degrade and disparage them the rest of the week?
We have our failings, we are human, it happens.  But maybe that's because the bar has been set so high, but regardless of that we can, should and are called to do so much more.  We are called to be so much more.  We can be so much better, we can be who Jesus is.