DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel when you encounter someone who talks one way but lives a different way?

2. How can becoming comfortable in our faith cause us to be like this?

3. James uses the term “pure religion.”  In your own words, what do you think this meant when you first read it?

4. Read James 1:27 and Isaiah 58 – how do the two writers describe “pure religion”? How does this differ from how so many Christians and churches conduct themselves?

5. What are some practical steps you can take to live out this “pure religion” that James talks about?