Those who hear that they have been liberated but fail to act in freedom are simply fooling themselves. Belief without behavior is empty. Genuine discipleship, in contrast, is the sustainable practice of hearing and doing freedom in Christ. This was the heart of Paul’s gospel, as he reminded the Galatians (Gal 5:1). Peter says something similar: “Live as people who are free … as servants of God” (1 Pet 2:16). What is striking about James’s way of putting it, however, is his emphasis on seeing oneself
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