James 1 Questions

1:1 What do you learn about the person who sent this letter? Whom did this person serve? To whom is he writing? What do you learn about the people to whom he is writing?

1:2-8 Make a dramatic story about this and act it, as a play.

1:2 To whom is James writing? What does James tell those people to do? What do you think about that? What will you do about that?

1:3 What would be different if you were to consider trials to be ‘pure joy’? What will you do?

1:4 What do you need to keep on doing? What will the results be? What do you think about that?

1:5 What is it that God can give to people? Who is it that should ask? Why might it be just those people? What will you find out when you do ask God for this? What will God not tell you when you ask for this?

1:6 What must you do when you ask God for something? What do you learn to do when you need wisdom? What must you not do? When you doubt, what are you like? What do you think about that?

1:7-8 What happens if you doubt? What would you think about that? How would you like to be?

1:9-18 Make up a dramatic story about this and act it, as a play. There could be three acts in your play: 1:9-11; 12-15; 16-18.

1:9 What should the poor person do? What will God do for that person?

1:10 What should the rich person be glad about? Why is that? What do you think about that?

1:11 What happens to flowers? In what way is a rich person like a wild flower? The rich person will ‘fall over and die like a wild flower’. What will the rich person be doing when that happens?

1:12 Whom does James say that God blesses? What reward will they receive? Use your own words to say or write a word picture of the reward. When will they receive that reward?

1:13-15 What do you learn about trials that tempt you? So, what tempts you? What is the order of events with temptation and sin? Think of a sin that you did. What led you to do that sin? What bad results might follow such a sin?

1:16-17 What is it that we must ‘not make a mistake’ about? What do you learn about differences between God and the sun, moon and stars? What do you think about that?

1:18 What is it that God chose to do for us? What do you think about that?

1:19-26 Make up a dramatic story about this and act it, as a play. There could be three acts in your play: 1:19-21; 22-25; 26-27.

1:19-21 What do you learn about how you should listen? When should we speak? When should we not speak?

What happens when you become angry? How do you change as you get angry? How might you change the way you behave when you are angry?

What particular bad things should you stop doing?

What should you accept from God, that he has already planted like a seed? What can the word of God do for you?

1:22 What mistake should you not make? How will you avoid that mistake? What will you do in a different way today?

1:23-25 What do you learn about what some people do? What does James say that those people are like? What about the other people? In what ways are they different? What will God do for those different people? What do you think about that? What will you do about that? What will God do?

1:26-27 What do you learn about being religious? What connection do the things that you say have with being religious? How does James describe the religion that our Father, God, accepts? What kind of religion is that? Who will benefit if you have true religion? How would someone know that you have true religion?