Slow Enough to Hear: The Practice That Makes It Visible

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A single Sunday from James 1:19-27 for a church that has marked the text and still needs the practice that can be seen. James tells beloved brothers to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, because the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. The implanted word, received with humility, is able to save souls. Hearers who walk away from the mirror delude themselves. Pure religion visits the fatherless and widows in their affliction and keeps a people unstained by the world. Matthew 7:24-27 puts the same hearing-and-doing on a house weather can test. 1 John 3:17-18 refuses love that stays in the tongue. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.