Following are some questions we used in our Sunday night bible study with our youth group.
The passage is in James 2: 14-26
1. Have you ever seen a homeless person on the side of the road? hat do you think about the people at intersections asking for money or food?
2. Have you ever helped such a person? How?
3. Do you tell people you will pray for them and never pray either because you forget or because you think that their situation is not that bad after all?
4. Have you seen someone in need (food, money, clothing, emotional need) and you felt sorry for them and that moved you to say that you will pray for them that God will meet their needs?
James suggests that such a prayer is worthless; that such a prayer has absolutely no value. READ Matthew 25: 42-43
5. Problem – some people have faith in faith. The problem is not that you only have faith. The more serious problem is that people put their faith in faith. This appear to be the case with the TV preachers who promote a false teaching in faith itself. “If you have faith, enough faith, then God will bless you financially, relationally, etc”.
Genuine faith results in actions.
6. Do all good works show faith? Can anyone demonstrate their faith?
Agree/Disagree * True faith consists of confession and action.
7. a) Is faith a spiritual gift? – 1Cor 12:9; Rom 12:3 (Do not rush with an answer. Think about it!) Paul says that faith is a spiritual gift.
b) Is doing good deeds a spiritual gift?
c) AGREE/DISAGREE *A Christian must have both faith and deeds/good works.
8. VS. 18b-19 Make your faith visible!
Take a minute to think about some of the good works you have done and see how and if they are connected with your faith.
Did you do the good you did because it sprang from your faith? Did your faith in God birthed those good deeds or was it your idea?
A dead seed does nothing. It will never result in anything.
A dead person will do nothing.
Dead faith does nothing.
How do you know if your faith is alive?
February 19th, 2009 at 5:16 am
How do i know? well, its working! By means of doing good deeds to anyone, i can say that its alive. Being generous and always willing to extend help to others without any comeback. I want to share also where you can post your good deeds A Global Tribe they are aiming a million of good deeds here!
February 20th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Imee,
Thank you for your visit and your comment.