These questions are a guideline for your personal or small group study based on Sunday's sermon passage. Feel free to study and meditate on the passage more deeply. ​​

1. Why is favoritism fundamentally incompatible with faith in “the Lord of glory”?

2. James argues that breaking even one aspect of God’s law makes a person a transgressor, what does this reveal about the nature of sin, selective obedience, and our need for mercy?

3. The sermon contrasts worldly systems of value with God’s “great reversal” that honors the least, how does that challenge the way we instinctively measure influence, success, and importance within both church and culture? 

4. James says that even demons possess correct theology yet remain unchanged, how does this distinction between intellectual belief and living faith confront comfortable or cultural Christians today?

5. The examples of Abraham and Rahab show faith expressed through costly obedience, what risks or acts of obedience might your faith be calling you to?

6. Reflect on the statement, “We do not work to get saved; we work because we are saved.” How does that balance protect us from both legalism and passive, inactive faith?

7. If our church truly embodied the kind of mercy, impartiality, and active faith James describes, how would that look? What can you start doing to put this into action?