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Like many people, when I watch The Apprentice on BBC1, I cringe when the candidates return to the Boardroom to face Lord Sugar. In every episode, people, who have agreed with and supported one other throughout their work in that episode, suddenly rewrite the history of what happened and tell a story of how wonderfully they, alone, performed. Often they also share a very biased tale of how it is solely their colleague’s personality failings and incompetence which caused their team to fail so dramatically.
As much as I enjoy watching programmes like The Apprentice, there is something very uncomfortable about watching people highlight the faults and weaknesses of their former colleagues and trample on the others in a futile attempt to get ahead.
How often do we hear similar stories in the life of the Church?Surely this is a same problem that James was writing about. If we are serious about submitting ourselves to God, shouldn’t the Church be more willing to put the needs of other people in the community first? Maybe we really could be working in harmony and supporting one another? Maybe we could even highlight the wonderful things the other members of our community do and not pick on the things which they maybe don’t do so well at?
What would the Church look like if we prioritised supporting the rest of the Church community? How very different would our own church look if we humbled ourselves and accepted the grace of God to be more alive in all we do?
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