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• There are all types of discrimination in the world today: economic, intellectual, sexual, political and racial, and age.

• The early church was not perfect in this: There is no perfect church.
• Illustration: Hendricks expands on the two men, one rich, one poor, who come to church and are treated differently.
• James says not to judge on the external.

• If God doesn't discriminate on the basis of the material, why should we?
• Why do we scrape and bow before the rich who oppress us?

• It's only when Jesus liberates us that we can be free from personal favoritism.

• We need to remember John 13:3—servant leadership.
• Illustration: Senator Mark Hatfield helping stack chairs after a father-son breakfast.
• Illustration: Tom Landry reaching out to Woody Hayes when he was a pariah in America.
• Illustration: A man who had fallen morally was restored through the efforts of one man who offered to help.
• Illustration: Testimony of a Dallas Cowboy to whom God gave the courage to tell his wife how much he appreciated her.