“For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, stand thou there, or sit under my footstool: are ye not partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?”
(James 2:2-4)
These scattered Christian Jews now had a place to assemble. We are not to forsake the assembling of ourselves with other believers. Then as now there were wealthy worshippers and those with little or nothing.
I was ministering to a new Christian, a man with a family, a hard working man. He had a lot of rough edges but he loved Jesus. A deacon in the church told me one day that I would be better off giving more time to the upstanding members and less to the “riff-raff.”
We all need to be reminded that the church is not a private club for well off, affluent saints, but it is a hospital for sin-sick sinners.
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