John Wesley said, \u2018We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.\u2019 Why did Jesus say, \u2018Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly\u2019<\/i>? (John\u00a07:24\u00a0NLT) Because He had experienced the pain of rejection and misunderstanding. \u2018He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a01:11\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n
The apostle James writes: \u2018Practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ by not favouring one person over another. For example, two men come to your worship service. Suppose you give special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say to him, \u201cPlease have a seat.\u201d But you say to the poor man\u2026 \u201cSit on the floor at my feet.\u201d Aren\u2019t you discriminating?\u2019<\/i> (James\u00a02:1\u20134\u00a0GWT) <\/p>\n
There\u2019s a story about country singer Lonzo Green. His nephew Jimmy asked him to tune a friend\u2019s guitar. The problem was Jimmy\u2019s friend was from the \u2018wrong side of the tracks\u2019 and Jimmy\u2019s parents wouldn\u2019t allow him inside their house where Uncle Lonzo was visiting. So they decided to meet outside. As the kid approached, Green noticed his self-consciousness and sideways glances at the upscale neighbourhood. Lonzo, who had experienced poverty and discrimination in his own life, tuned the boy\u2019s old guitar, played a few songs, and taught him some chords. The young man thanked him and left with a warm memory he would carry throughout the rest of his life. <\/p>\n
Eventually that boy crossed the tracks for good with his guitar and soft, polite drawl and hesitant smile, and was never unwelcome again. That\u2019s because the boy who wasn\u2019t allowed in the house that day was\u2014Elvis Presley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Wesley said, \u2018We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.\u2019 Why did Jesus say, \u2018Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly\u2019? (John\u00a07:24\u00a0NLT) Because He had experienced the pain of rejection and misunderstanding. \u2018He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.\u2019 (John\u00a01:11\u00a0NKJV) The apostle James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}