Part 3: Love without Favoritism
Pastor Bo explores James’s challenge to love without favoritism, especially when the money, power, and status of others promise us worldly benefits. James 2 exposes how easily we honor the influential while overlooking the poor, revealing a contradiction within our hearts. Jesus’ “Royal Law,” that is, loving one’s neighbor — expressed through generosity, hospitality, and mercy — is the “good soil” of God’s house. Favoritism of the “shiny people” is not a minor violation of the law but a fracture of covenant love. The church is called to be a community of new creation where worth is measured by grace, not appearance, and where that oft-invisible value becomes apparent through godly, mutual love.