Show me your faith…

We come now to the small New Testament book of James on the Devotional Page. This letter is a very practical one that many experts believe was written before any of the other twenty six New Testament books. If it was written before the so called ‘council of Jerusalem’ described in the Book of Acts (as James seems to have been) then it would have been written about 49 AD, Of course the Church at Jerusalem at that time was made up almost exclusively of believers of Jewish descent and that may explain why this letter deals with personal ethics more than doctrine. The emphasis in James is on works that are the result of faith in the believers life. James points out in several different ways that when salvation has come into a person’s heart the results will be obvious and observable in the changed life of that new believer. God the Spirit wants to speak to us from it today so let’s study on…

Pastor Ed