Living the Christian life requires Participation. Christianity is not a spectator sport!

James 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.

What does it mean to Participate in Our Faith?

James 1:22-24

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 

Faith Is More Than Hearing

James 1:2

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

Trials Test Our Participation

Trials Test Our Participation

James 1:2

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 

James 1:3

because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:4

Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

How deeply you connect is always determined by deeply you want to grow!

What happens when we participate?

Blessing Comes Through Doing! 

James 1:22-24

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 

James 1:25

25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

Blessing Comes Through Doing!

Participation is the evidence of Transformation!