Testing Your Faith: James describes trials as a process rather than as events. He recharacterizes trials as testing our faith, which in turn builds endurance. Endurance then leads to being perfect—a state James defines as being mature and complete, not lacking anything. Our incentive for persevering in the face of trials is the growth and maturity God brings about through them. The correlation James makes between testing of faith and spiritual growth is consistent with the principle of testing
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