What Does James Mean When He Says "Faith Without Works is Dead"?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 985 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Should we treat nominal Christians as unbelievers or as members of the body?
2. Is requiring the King James translation only a form of legalism?
3. What does "faith without works is dead" mean? I've also heard some people interpret this as meaning that your faith in Jesus Christ isn't useful to anyone if you don't have works. I believe that we are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ and I'm confused about how "faith without works is dead" fits into that.
4. Can Christians join fraternal lodges that have secret rituals and rites?
5. How do we engage with those who say they're Christians but live ungodly lives?
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| 0:00.0 | What does James mean when he says faith without works is dead? That's just one of the |
| 0:11.3 | questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Hi, this is Bill |
| 0:16.3 | Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions |
| 0:21.6 | about the Bible and the Christian life every day. Our phone lines are open right now. We'll be taking |
| 0:26.7 | calls for the next 25 minutes or so, and we would love to hear from you. Here's our phone number. |
| 0:31.8 | It's 833-the-core. That's 1-833-843-243-2673. And we're open to questions on pretty much any topic that has to do with |
| 0:41.7 | the Christian faith. So give us a call. You can also post your question on our Facebook, |
| 0:45.5 | Instagram, or Twitter accounts, and you can email us with your question at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. |
| 0:52.9 | First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners named |
| 0:55.9 | John. Hello, Pastor Adrian and Bill Meyer. I just want to say enjoy the podcast. I want to follow |
| 1:02.4 | up on a question you answered a couple days ago on someone who is caught in open sin. I think the |
| 1:07.9 | specific question was relating to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. |
| 1:12.4 | One thing I'm struggling with is how to put that scripture in a practice in light of living |
| 1:18.2 | in a nation that is incredibly nominal. I think it's over 50% people in the United States of America |
| 1:25.7 | professed to be Christians. |
| 1:30.2 | I don't know the percentage that actually attend church. |
| 1:35.6 | So I'm wondering, would you distinguish between how to relate to maybe a believer in a church who is caught in open sin, won't repent, and say someone who's maybe a nominal, Catholic, |
| 1:42.3 | or Protestant or evangelical, whatever, and how would you kind of navigate |
| 1:47.6 | those different areas? Do we approach that differently? Or is it the same sort of like shun, do not |
| 1:54.8 | associate, so on and so forth? Thanks. John, that's just an excellent, excellent question. |
| 2:02.1 | And I would say that the answer is yes. |
| 2:04.7 | We do approach that differently. |
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