Faith in the Flesh
James 1:27
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Not all religion is acceptable to God. That statement strikes our postmodern ears as intolerant, ethnically prejudice, and even bigoted. But there is religion that is acceptable to God, according to James.
A major theme that runs throughout James' epistle is that faith must be lived out in the flesh. Acceptable faith, then, is faith that is lived out, faith that empowers us to care for the orphans and the widows: the least, the last, and the lost.
This Sunday at OKC First Church we will be celebrating Faith Promise Sunday, a day in which we make our commitments to supporting our mission ministries around the world. We will hear from each of our missionaries ministering around the world, examine what it means to care for orphans and widows, and how our faith can be acceptable to God. I look forward to seeing each of you online or in person this Sunday at 10:45 at OKC First Church!
Pastor Lesly
