How to Hold Your Faith. James 2:1. Believers have been given a gift of faith, a glorious gift from the Father above and in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. However, as we live out our faith it is possible to hold our faith in a manner that does not glorify Jesus Christ. The attitude of personal favoritism is one of the easiest sins for the believers to slip into. Today Dr. White gives the instruction from James about the sin of partiality.