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Devotional: James 3:1-5

Today’s passage: James 3:1-5

Helpful thoughts:

  • Teaching is convicting and humbling if you are truly doing it to serve the Lord and the listeners.
  • It is impossible to teach the whole counsel of God without failing to perfectly “practice what you preach.”(Teachers and preachers need the Gospel too!)
    • The teacher therefore must also be a sincere humble learner, even in their preparation and delivery of the lecture.
  • Words are powerful.  They can affect far more than the speaker ever intended.
    • We can choose our words, but we can’t choose their consequences.

Questions to consider:

  1. What would be some good motivations and some bad motivations to teach?  What makes them good or bad?
  2. What makes good teaching “good”?  What is even more important than the humility and conduct of the teacher?
  3. If you are aware that a little fire on the campsite could erupt into a full-blown forest fire, how do you take precaution at your campsite?  How would this illustration translate into taking precaution with your words?

August 4, 2019 Category: Devotions, James

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