This is one that upon reading the title, I imagine most people said, “Yea! That one is so true and I do a good job of it” (myself included). To that I would say be careful with easy personal assessments. I think that consciously we ascribe to this one very easily, but the subconscious is alive and well and moves us to behave in ways that completely disregard the Bibical principle.
Let’s take a look at some scripture to see the challenge we are really facing.
My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
James 2:1-13
I like the book of James a lot because of its straightforwardness. This passage lays it out better than anything I know. Don’t show favoritism, example of the most common favoritism the world has ever known, exhortation to love your neighbor as yourself, doctrinal statement that sin is sin and favoritism is one of them, explanation that freedom and mercy is where our hope lies and we should therefore extend it to others.
I hope you would agree with me that respecting wealthy people more than poor people is a problem that has never been solved. If anything our society glorifies the wealthy to the point of sheer ridiculousness. There is an entire set of television programming dedicated to their “incredible” lives. Even scarier is how this form of favoritism has worked its way into the American church. Conclusions that wealthy believers or churches must be that way because of God’s active decision to bless them leave other people and churches wondering what they are doing wrong and asking (or even trusting) God to fix it. FYI - wealthy believers and churches sin and have problems in abundance.
So that is the big one, but what about all the other differences that may have been sowed into our subconscious from any number of sources (parents, television, marketing, pastors, churches, schools, locality)? You need to take some time of serious self reflection to pinpoint areas of difference that have somehow morphed into areas of judgment. I am going to let you know about one of mine that is a bit unusual just to show you how pervasive the challenge really is.
I instinctively dislike people that drive nice cars.
Somehow an amalgam of the fact that I am not really a car guy, that I believe a car is a terrible investment, that I believe America’s obsession with cars embodies everything wrong with American consumerism, and that I drive a Honda Civic developed into an instinctive personal prejudice against those that drive nice cars. I know that this is wrong. I know that it is actually sin. But, you see, I like my Honda Civic. I am proud of the fact that I drive a Honda Civic. Some of that pride is ok, but some of that pride is definitely sin. Some of that pride is saying, “I’m better than you because I drive a Honda Civic.” In other words, my pride in my car is really no different than pride that a person driving a nice car might have.
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