This is Josh from the radical team covering for Stacey Martin.

What does true Christianity look like?

Many people are happy to go to church, or even identified with Christ, so long as he doesn't custom anything.

Their faith doesn't seem to affect the way they live or the way they view dozing need.

In this message from James 1-26 through 2-13, David Platt challenges us to look at how true faith is described in Bible,

rather than taking our cues from culture or common practices in the church.

True faith produces love, and this love should be evident in the way we speak,

the way we treat the vulnerable and the poor, and the way we live in relation to the ways of the world.

This is the radical with David Platt podcast.

Here's David with the message titled, Faith Loves.

If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to James chapter 1.

Soren Kiergård once said,

the human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity.

Until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

Let me repeat that. Kiergård, a Danish philosopher theologian said,

the human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

I agree with Kiergård in that.

We try at every turn to define Christianity on our terms instead of what God has outlined in the New Testament.

I am convinced of the deep dark secret of our religious subculture in Birmingham, Alabama, is that we want Christianity.

And we want church on our terms in a way that aligns with our preferences and accommodates our lifestyles.

Regardless of what the New Testament says, we are happy to go to church.

We are glad to be Christians just so long as we don't have to make radical changes in our lives in order to do so.

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