Slow Enough to Hear: What This Changes Between Us

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A single Sunday from James 1:19-27 for a church that can quote the text and still take opposite doors after the vote. 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. Proverbs 18:13 names the folly of answering before hearing. Colossians 3:12-13 clothes a beloved people in compassion, bearing, and forgiveness because Christ already forgave. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.