I have observed that at times and in some churches, some people tend to treat a person according to the person's appearance, the way a person dresses, or according to the person's status or rank in society. When a person is well dressed or has got a title or something, some may treat such a person like a VIP. But when a beggar or shabbily dressed person comes to church, some of us may begin to form all sorts of thoughts and assume all sorts of scenarios, whether good or bad. This is precisely what today's reading is warning us: "Can’t you see that you have used two different standards in your mind, and turned yourselves into judges, and corrupt judges at that?"
Today's reading also tells us that "the right thing to do is to keep the supreme law of scripture: you must love your neighbour as yourself; but as soon as you make distinctions between classes of people, you are committing sin, and under condemnation for breaking the Law." Are we segregating and treating people differently in church? Have we forgotten that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, regardless of how we look or who we are? If we are continuing to treat people in such a manner, how different are we compared to the world? Are we followers of Christ, or have we allowed the ways of the world to corrupt us?
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