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Charis Minute with James Brown: Faith and Works is a Both-And!

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Channel: Charis Bible College · 2017 · People & Blogs

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There were debates amongst scholars and historians and great church reformers like Martin Luther, the 16th century reformer who called the book James the epistle of straw, that it lacked the Evangelical character and heft, if you will, of the Pauline Letters. 

        Why? Because Luther focused on faith. James seems to focus on action, doing something with our faith. Luther felt that it tended, if you will, to promote a Christianity of works and not faith. 
      There is no contradiction between faith and works, because it's not faith or works, it's a faith that works. That's what James is talking about and emphasizing. 
 Anything that we do really with an eye towards God, is being obedience to him, because faith is the root. Good works, as Jeremy used the example about the branch laying out on the street by itself with no fruit on it, faith is the root. Action is the fruit. James is saying, I want you to have a faith that works.

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