The number one reason people don’t have any interest in coming to church is Christians and our inability to behave like Jesus.
Throughout James 4:1-6 we discover that if followers of Christ continue in worldly wisdom, we can count on the fact that we will be at war on three fronts as our life’s spin-out of control.
11b At war with OURSELVES: “Do they not come from YOUR desires for pleasure that war in YOUR members?”
22a At war with OTHERS: “You lust and do not have; You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war.”
•2b-6 At war with GOD: “Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? But He gives more grace. Therefore, He says, “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”