Accepting Everyone in Church, Part 2 (TMF:1959)

Thursday, October 13, 2022
Peace to Live By: Accepting Everyone in Church, Part 2 (TMF:1959) - Daniel Litton
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       The overall point that I believe James is trying to make to us is that we, as Christians, particularly as individuals of our local church body, are family. Yes, we have our Lord Jesus Christ, but the beautiful thing is that we also have our family within our local church. And it doesn’t matter what our position is—whether we are rich or whether we are poor—we are part of the family. Yeah, we can judge based on superficial things. We can be like middle and high schoolers who care only about appearance. We can judge people based on what they wear and how they look. I think it’s funny that James here tells us not to judge a person by what they are wearing. Don’t judge a movie based on the picture on the Blu-Ray, or the poster hanging in the theater. Some of the best movies have the worst posters. That’s besides the point. Whether we look to be rich, or whether we look to be poor, whatever path of liberty we choose, our personal attitudes are to be acceptance. Notice how James says, “have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts.” That’s two things we need to analyze here.