Isn’t it tempting to play nice with people you think you can curry favor? Especially if that person, or that group of people have means and influence and can make life easier for you? It seems the first church responded to their difficulties of being scattered throughout the Roman world and being harassed by nearly everyone by trying to win the favor of wealthy people. In today’s passage James addressed the all too common problem of the sin of partiality. The church compromised its values, disregarded the Word of God, and gave special treatment to certain people. Most likely they were responding the pain of being rejected and treated as irrelevant in their communities. Perhaps they thought giving the rich what the rich wanted would earn them relevancy back. The problem is that a church that values relevance over Truth will find itself with neither. James exhorts the church to show no partiality as you hold the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!
From Series: "Wisdom From Above I A Study of James"
This series is a study of the book of James, and what it has to say to the Church about discerning between truth and error, worldly wisdom and godly wisdom.
