Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Actions speak louder (James 1) #1 - Coggle Diagram
Actions speak louder (James 1) #1
Rarely preach on James
Rarely hear a sermon
X hard to see why
counter other doctrines we take as read
Luther - sola fide
'faith' not ours - Jesus'
Became foundational in the reformation
x surprising 'Epistle of straw'
focus on what we do x what we believe
Another reason - James not an apostle
x know who James was
James - brother of John 'sons of thunder'
James son of Alpheus - James the Less (Catholics teach)
Brother of Jesus?
Book of James unusual in style - more like 'Wisdom' book - Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes - pithy teaching on how to live
Often quotes Jesus - sermon on the mount
particularly in the face of suffering
helps us move to perfection - more like Jesus
First chapter introduces themes
Listen, not speak (a bit of a challenge to a LP!)
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.' (Dalai Lama)
x get angry
accept the word, be doers of the word
get rid of the filth in your life
know yourself
watch your tongue
Take note of this!
True religion
Leader of the Jerusalem church, while Paul and James travelled.
Paul called him an apostle - a pillar of the church
believed to have been martyred by stoning
Jesus showed himself to James