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 broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

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 a 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 the God 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 illustration which is fundamentally an

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