The Hurt of Favoritism
Our Sunday series in the Book of James is Wisdom4Life! Something that has been with people living together since the Tower of Babel is the attitude of personal favoritism. It hurts families and cultures, as it exists in many forms. We might not think this a problem in the first century but it was then as it is now. This week’s message from Pastor Clay from James 2:1-7 is The Hurt of Favoritism.
The online version of the message, “The Hurt of Favoritism” is available below.
James 2:1-7
2 1My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. 2 For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, 3 and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,” 4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives? 5 Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court? 7 Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?
