What practical changes do you need to make to begin practicing what you are learning in the Word of God?.How does getting angry hurt your faith? Your friendships?.Why is it hard to listen quickly and listen well?.Why do you think caring for widows and orphans is connected to true faith? In verses 24-25, why is doing the Word compared with looking at a mirror?.After hearing the Word, what are some reasons we don’t do it? Based on verses 19-20, why is the writer urging us to listen well?.What does James say about undefiled religion? What does the writer promise readers if they apply the truth? What are some of the warnings listed here? What does this text say about our mouths and ears? Why do people have a hard time listening well?.What are some good and bad ways to deal with anger?.When you were a little kid, what was it like to sit and listen to someone talk for a long time?.27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works-this person will be blessed in what he does.Ģ6 If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. 21 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.Ģ2 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For connection information contact or dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20 for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. All 7th-12th graders are welcome to join. On Sunday mornings at 9:00 am we meet over Zoom.