Lesson#3: Faith, Works and Love
This Sunday we're looking at James 2. The whole thing.
Some food for thought while studying out this passage:
What's the deal? We spent the last few Bible studies together talking about how we aren't saved by the good works that we do. We even said that our good works don't earn us favor with God. So then what's James 2 talking about? Why does he harp on deeds so much? Are we really saved by works?
Martin Luther struggled with the book of James. In fact, he called it the straw gospel. He had come out of a system that had emphasized works so strongly that to hear anything remotely like Catholicism made his sick. We'll talk more about it this Sunday.