Christians believe that we have a hope because God has made Himself known to us through His word.  What does it look like to work out our faith before this God? This is what James is showing us today. 

After addressing favouritism within the church community, James continues to address his readers by speaking about relationships with others.

In this section, we will see James’ command to not show partiality in church.

But how does James go from suffering, trials and tribulation to partiality? 

James has been dealing with trials and sufferings in the Christian’s life. Here, he continues to lay out a lifestyle and a people that deals with trials and sufferings in a way that’s different from the world. 

James gives us practical handles for godliness. Last week, we saw that the Christian will face trials of various kinds, and the call to turn to God and ask Him for wisdom. 

In every trial, everyone is twice tested. Firstly, in the trial itself. Secondly, in the inward trial. There is a temptation to self-pity. 

As we read in the previous study, James is writing to the 12 tribes in the Dispersion in this epistle (Jas 1:1). In this study, we continue to see what James wanted to exhort the Christians to cling on to and pursue.

We begin a new study in the book of James, In this study, we will take a look at the opening verse to understand who is wrote the book, and the centrality of the gospel through the chapters.