Title: Saving Faith is a Faith That Works
Preacher: Rev’d Francis Blight
Teaching Passage: James 2:14-26
10-11am Morning Worship (John Owen Barn) The All Saints Club will be running the Luke group (4-11 years). Matthew group (11-16 yeas) will remain in the main service for the focus on James.
A play creche will be available with a livestream of the service for parents to use with 0-3s.
11.30am Holy Communion (Eight Ash Green).
The 10am service will be livestreamed.
You are invited to stay for refreshments after either service
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(This will be available from 10:00am on Sunday)
Online ChurchJames 2:14-26
2:15 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
2:16 If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?
2:17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
2:18 But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."
2:19 Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that-and shudder.
2:20 You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless ?
2:21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
2:22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.
2:24 You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
2:25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?
2:26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.