Grace = great relationships

Friday - 8/31 - Read James 4:1-12

God wants grace to help us grow in our relationships with others.

In vv. 11 and 12 we see that this includes what we say about others. How should our tongue be used as we bring up the names of others?

God's grace has been give to us to build up others. Why is "slander v. 11" so wrong in light of this?

We are called to love each other by God's law (the royal law, to love others as we love ourselves).

Are we an exception to this law?

If not, how do we become judges of the law (v. 11)?

Submission to God! That's what it comes back to. This is what humility is all about.

Here we see that this submission plays out as love to others, watching our words and building others up with them. How you doing?

Read Isa. 1:18; Mt. 26:26-29 for next Sunday