Let's Do Something | Week 5
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.
James 4:13-17 NIV
1. Verse 13 of James 4 doesn't seem to be statement that is all that bad and you have probably said something similar.....what is the issue with it?
1. Verse 13 of James 4 doesn't seem to be statement that is all that bad and you have probably said something similar.....what is the issue with it?
2. How would you describe the change in perspective that James is calling us to in your own words?
3. How does this different outlook impact the way we see the opportunity for good in our life?
4. When you think about sin is it more often acts of commission or omission? What are some acts of omission that you might be guilty of?
