Outline Place Finder PRACTICING PROBLEMS PROSPECTS BACK to Outline Chapter summary. Even a faith that produces works will meet many difficult challenges. The first of these problems is with the tongue, which is almost uncontrollable and yet exerts a tremendous influence in everyone’s life (3:1–12). Another problem is with the self. The natural man harbors bitterness and ambition in his heart and is moved by a “wisdom” dedicated to helping him achieve selfish ends. But God’s kind of “wisdom”