June 16, 2025
James: Get 'Er Done
How To Face The Hard Stuff
James gets right down to business! For everyone not currently soaking in a hot tub, suffering is a first order of business. In just a few verses, James explains how trials can grow maturity, how wisdom helps the journey, and how to avoid wasting a suffering experience.
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Questions:
James 1:1-8
- Identify a time of trial that you experienced. What were some of the good and not-so-good ways you made your way through that?
- How do you understand the phrase “considering it pure joy when you go through trials”? Is James advocating emotional dishonesty?
- What does perseverance feel like? How would you explain how that works to a young believer?
- What coping mechanisms have you leaned on that, in hindsight, may have pulled you away from moving through suffering in a healthy way?
- Have you ever seen yourself, or even the suffering church, as first fruits? What does that even mean?
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