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"Practice Makes Possible"
This week, our focus for worship shifts as we begin a three-week series visiting the New Testament's letter of James. Written to a general audience of early Christian churches around 20 years after the events of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, James is filled with quite a bit of no-nonsense, practical, proverb-like wisdom about living as a Christian and in Christian community. In the passage that we'll hear this Sunday, we get immediately immersed in James' conviction that, indeed, faith is something to be lived--enacted, expressed outwardly, practiced through what we do, not just what we hear, think, or feel. There's a long-standing tension in Christian belief, between the imperative to put our faith into action and the caution against trusting in our own actions as being that which gets us in "right" with God. But could it be that it is in the do-ing that we most fully encounter the One who is the Source of Being?
(Apologies for the lower quality video this week; we had technical difficulties with our usual livestream to YouTube, and so have had to upload the backup recording of the service from Zoom.)