How do we treat others in church? Do we treat all as equal, as brothers and sisters in Christ; or do we treat others according to the way they dress, or their appearance, or according to the their status or rank in society? In some churches, I have noticed that when a person is well dressed or has
got a title or something, some treat such a person like a VIP. But
when a beggar or shabbily dressed person comes to church, some may
begin to form all sorts of thoughts and assume all sorts of scenarios,
whether good or bad.
Today's reading warns
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."
The question we need to ask ourselves is this: Are we
segregating and treating people differently in church? Are we not 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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