An apology to all for totally missing the month of March. But as you know, we're ready to fire up again for the book of James. Here is a condensed version of the Purpose Statement and paragraph titles we came up with as a group at the end of our winter study.
This week we will study James 1:1-12. As we have spent two weeks in that passage at church recently, we should all have lots of thoughts about it. So....
James:
wrote this letter to his Jewish brothers for the purpose of correcting wrong thinking which would not support them through their trying circumstances:
He did this by:
1:1-12 proposing a radical new attitude towards suffering.
1:13-2:13 expecting the believers to live rightly.
2:14-26 expecting their faith to produce action.
3: exposing the source of double-mindedness.
4:challenging them to replace self will with God's will.
5: challenging them to live generous, stable, open-hearted lives until Christ's return.
I hope that as we redo the book of James we will truly adopt a way of thinking that actually holds us up during whatever life throws at us. There are many, many "practical" applications from this little book, but the most practical of all is that we think about God and the ramifications of our relationship with him as He thinks of them.
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