Doe it matter how a Christ follower acts and talks in public? How should a Christ follower be different than the norm in our culture? James hammers away at what an authentic faith looks like. James had grown up with Jesus and had previous doubts about what Jesus claimed (John 7:5). But the words of James boldly state the need to be all in, to be completely identified as a Christ follower with no duplicity. I wonder how James would word his message to us today? Would there be specific topics that he would point out?
“Our hearts are like that. We think we’ve learned about grace, set our idols aside, and reached a place where we’re serving God not for what we’re going to get from him but for who he is. There’s a certain sense in which we spend our entire lives thinking we’ve reached the bottom of our hearts and finding it is a false bottom. Mature Christians are not people who have completely hit the bedrock. I do not believe that is possible in this life. Rather, they are people who know how to keep drilling and are getting closer and closer.” - Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods
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