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today's devotional. Hey, what is up? Thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. My name is Bro,

and we are walking through a book in the back of the Bible called the Book of James.

And I told you yesterday that I would tell you a story today of the first time I ever preached on James Chapter 2.

It was almost 40 years ago.

I was a young, probably little cocky, student ministry guys serving at a church in the middle of a city. And since we were right

in the heart of the downtown, we had a lot of people with needs surrounding us. People would show up

all the time wanting food or gas money or help of some kind. So I was given the task of preaching

from James Chapter 2, and I have since heard about other pastors doing this type of thing,

but this was way, way back in 1985. So I decided that instead of just preaching on the passage,

I would do an object lesson. So I dressed up like one of the homeless guys that were all around

our church, and I made myself unrecognizable. I had a long beard, had my hat pulled down,

I had torn up jeans, dirty army jacket, had gloves with the fingers cut out and all my belongings

in a bag. And I got to the church early, and I came in and sat in the middle of the auditorium.

People filed in and totally avoided me. They shook hands with each other, they embraced

each other, but no one said anything to me. My own mom, who usually sat in that section, moved to the other side.

I stood with the crowd, I sang with the crowd, and when it was time for the message, and

the worship leader had the people sit back down, he started getting nervous because I wasn't

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