Who you are if you trust in Christ makes no difference to God?

Dr Tony Evans says there's no discrimination at the foot of the cross.

People who understand grace can't be racist because they need hope too.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

The truth is, even Christians who believe we're all equal under God can treat some people

like they're more equal than others.

Let's join Dr Evans in the second chapter of James, the first verse,

as he examines why fairness ought to begin within the family of God.

Here James raises a problem in the church that he calls

personal favoritism or actions of discrimination. Now please notice a couple of immediate observations in

this verse alone. The problem is not that this church did not have clear doctrine.

These were clear believers who had faith in God

in the glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

Yet somehow their doctrinal belief system

did not affect their interpersonal relationships and how they related to people who were different.

They would look at people on the outside to determine their worth on the inside.

They allowed exterior qualities to determine personal value.

This thing of personal favoritism, my word for the same thing is discrimination, is where you treat people wrongly

because they don't meet up to your standards,

even though they may be meeting up to God's standard.

It's where you reduce the value of somebody else because they don't please you rather than because they don't please God. In this particular

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