Pastor Melissa

_____I like the Book of James for a couple of reasons. First, because it is a book of action. Be doers of the word. Be doers who act. And not just a listener who listens. Not just a thinker who thinks. Not just a talker who talks. Not just a believer who believes. Not just prayer who prays. But be a believer in Christ who gets things done for the kingdom of God. I like that.

You see, I am an activist person. I like doing things. I like to get things done. I can’t stand to be part of a group that just talks, talks, talks. Plans, plans, plans. Process, process, process. Organizes, organizes, organizes. And never do anything but talk, plan, process and organize. It drives me crazy to be part of such groups. I like to get things done. For a lot of people, the talking is the doing. The processing is the doing. The organizing is the doing. That is not me. So James is an activist book, and so I like the Book of James because of that.

So when James says in the epistle for today, “Do not be hearers who look into a mirror and forget; but be doers who act. They will be blessed by their doing.” I like that in James because I think of myself as being a doing person.