James 5 Questions

5:1-20. Make a dramatic story out of this and act it, as a play. Your play might be in three acts 5:1-6; 7-12; 13-20

5:1-3 What will happen to us if we are rich? What will happen to stuff (clothing, gold, silver and other things) that we collect? Use your own words to say or write these word pictures.

5:4-6 What does James say that we have done? Use your own words to say or write these word pictures. Tell about those kinds of things that have happened in your own experience or in your own neighbourhood.

5:7-11 Use your own words to say or write this. Why do you need patience? What benefits come when you are patient? Where can you learn about the benefits of patience? How would you know if someone was patient? What will you do in a different way because you have studied about patience?

5:12 What do you learn here? What do you think about that? How will someone else know that you have learned this lesson?

5:13-18 How must you act when you are:

  • in trouble?
  • cheerful?
  • sick?

Who should do those actions? What do you think about that? Use your own words to say or write what James teaches about prayer.

5:19-20 What do you learn about a believer who acts on his own? What kind of responsibility do we have for other believers? What reward comes from God if you turn someone back to the truth?

 

Summary

Read again James’s book, ‘What faith should do’. What things will you need to do that are different?