James 3 Questions

3:1-18. Make a dramatic story out of this and act it, as a play. Your play might be in three acts: 3:1-5a; 5b-12; 13-18.

3:1 What do you learn about teachers? Why do you think God demands more from teachers than other people?

3:2 Who makes mistakes? What do you have to achieve to be perfect?

3:3 Use your own words to say or write this word picture. What other word picture could you use for the same thing?

3:4 Use your own words to say or write this word picture. What other word picture could you use for the same thing?

3:5a What do you learn about the tongue? What do you think about what you learned? What examples do you have from your own experience?

3:5b Use your own words to say or write this word picture.

3:6 How is the tongue dangerous? What experience do you have of the danger of your own tongue? How have other people hurt you, or to use James’s word picture, ‘burned’ you, with their tongues? People’s tongues can damage relations with other people. Which examples have you heard for yourself?

3:7 What can human beings do? What do you think about that?

3:8 What is the difficulty with the tongue? What do you need to do because of this?

3:9-10 What do you learn? Use your own words to say or write this. What do you think about this?

3:11-12 Explain the meaning of these word pictures. Draw a picture of these examples. Why do you think that James says this to his Christian ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’?

3:13 What does James say to the wise person? How would you know that someone was a wise person? What do you need to do in a different way?

3:14-16 What will you discover if you do not behave as a wise person? What would make you know that you behave in a jealous, bitter and selfish way? What are the results of jealous and selfish actions? How could someone come to deny the truth? What do you learn about wisdom that does not come from God? Write those things down.

3:17-18 Many good things come from the wisdom that comes from heaven. What are they? What will you do in a different way when you use ‘the wisdom that comes from heaven’? What will God do for you that will help?