James is on my mind as I thank the 321 who LIKE this ministry. Chapter 2, from the Message. 14 Dear friends, do you think youll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? 15 For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved 16 and say, Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit! and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup - where does that get you? 17 Isnt it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense? 18 I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, Ill handle the works department. Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove. 19 Do I hear you professing to believe in the one and only God, but then observe you complacently sitting back as if you had done something wonderful? Thats just great. Demons do that, but what good does it do them? 20 Use your heads! Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?
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