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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Good Company
Description: Good Company – Today we begin a series from the Epistle of James, which was written to an early congregation who have, according to the author, lost their way. The author cites them for accepting and welcoming people like themselves, but ignoring the poor who are unlike them. Historically, the church to whom the epistle was directed was a diaspora congregation, living where they were tempted to cater to the powerful and wealthy. But the writer refers them to the beatitudes, blessing those who are not blessed by society’s standards, cautioning them that Jesus is with those poor among them, and...