"What Walls Are We Talking About?"

This is part four on the "Living Larger Than Ourselves" of his sermon series.

Walls of prejudice and discrimination.

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:2-4

God loves the other people on the other side of my wall.

How to Break Down Walls:

1. Get a flatter perspective.

But if you treat some people better than others, you have done wrong, and the Scriptures teach that you have sinned.
James 2:9

2. Get a broader perspective.

And I pray that you and all God's holy people will have the power to understand the greatness of Christ's love--how wide and how long and how high and how deep that love is.
Ephesians 3:18

3. Get a relational perspective.

We are not careful not to judge people by what they seem to be, though we once judged Christ in that way.
2 Corinthians 5:16