**This Week’s Scriptures
James 2
Tip: The text boxes on the right are there for you to take your own notes as we go.
1. Listen to the Message
We are saved by
It’s not faith
Real
A faith that doesn’t change you is not true faith in Jesus Christ.
People can
Christianity is not a
2. For further reflection and study
READ
Faith and Works
14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? —James 2:14-20
DISCUSS
1. What did Paul focus on regaring salvation and what did James focus on regarding salvation?
2.How could they be seen as contradicting each other?
3. Discuss how they are not contradicting but are actually working together to reveal how faith and works are inseperable.
4. Discuss the difference between a possesor and a professor.
5.Have you ever questioned if your faith in Jesus is genuine? If so, how did you deal with it? And are you firmly settled on it now?
3. Pray