James 4:5-10 For our ministry of the word this morning, we are going to flesh out just a bit the teaching of James in chapter 4. Th ere he traces the hostility that sometimes rears its head in local churches to a surprising source. Most hostility does not come about because some people are wise and others foolish. Hostility in churches comes from worldliness—having the wrong internal cravings; or, to use his word, coveting. Instead of being content with asking God for things, believers tend to fall back into sinful patterns brought forward from their pre-conversion experience.