Our Bible Ponder for this evening takes a look at the straight-shooter of the New Testament, James.
In particular we are wondering about how you can place importance on doing good deeds without having good deeds become the way you 'earn' salvation.
Our questions are:
1. Have you ever felt like grace was something you had to earn?
2. Is James saying that all good deeds are, by definition, done out of faith?
3. How do you balance the knowledge that ‘faith without deeds is dead’ and the famous phrase that comes out of Paul’s letters that we are ‘justified by faith alone’?
