"My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism."
(James 2: 1, NIV)
One of the biggest problems in today's Church is "favoritism" shown towards the wealthy and popular Christians within local congregations. For example many leaders within such congregations got their position through popularity and being favored, instead of being chosen for the role of leadership based on one's godly character. Try confronting such christians in a local Church about their guilt of showing partiality towards others, and they will either out right confess it does exist, but its not a problem in their congregation, or they will say it does not exist. The funny thing is the very ones why say favoritism does not exist in their Church are usually the ones who are favored. How fitting are the words in this quote I came across: "FAVORITISM: The only ones that say it doesn't exist are the ones getting it." Sad but so true. In ancient Biblical times some Jewish communities were guilty of this sin of favoritism. (A Work in Progress...)
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