We're doing this really cool Bible study method with our small group right now. We are Studying James, one chapter a week. Each week we answer three questions: 1. What would you title this chapter? (Can't use what is printed in our Bibles.) 2. What is your favorite verse in this chapter? Why is it your favorite? 2. What is your most challenging verse in this chapter? Why is it your most challenging. We are on Chapter 2 this week. Here are my answers: 1. "What Does Real Faith Look Like?" 2. Verse 17. Christianity seems to me to always ask, "What are you going TO DO with Jesus?" Faith is an action word to me - it's about DOING. But in the doing I have to remember Ephesians 2:8-9 that tells me I am saved by GRACE and grace alone. But I am so overcome and changed by that grace that my reaction has to be ACTIVE; doing, giving, serving, loving. 3. Verse 10.It's hard for me to think about God like this. It is so different than the way we think in our society. If we bread one part of the traffic law (speeding, running a red light, etc.), we don't automatically break ALL of the law; like murder or robbery. But God is absolute. That is why I need a Savior. Jesus tells us (Matthew 5) that hating someone in our hearts is the same, in the eyes of God, as murdering them. Breaking just a little bit of the law - if only in our hearts - is the same as overtly breaking all of the law. Wow. Thank you God for the change and redemption that comes because of Jesus.