Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Churched and unChurched

I was reading my bible today lol and this verse came up:

James 2

1My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism. 2Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. 3If 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," 4have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

I was trying to think if I showed favoritism. I think I pay extra attention to the "non-church" kids more and with the church goers I tend to push to the side thinking they're ok cuz they go to church. Then I realized that I was showing favoritism because the church going kids need Jesus just as much as the ones that don't on a regular basis maybe even more. I feel really convicted on this issue. SO yeah thought I would put that out there. I think in our heads we tend to create a barrier of "good kids" and "bad kids" and then we assume that the good kids are ok but they're not.