"Talk is cheap. Let's go play." - Johnny Unitas
That’s a modern quote to summarize the back half of James 2 that has troubled Christians for centuries. And it’s because it poses this question: Can you have faith without works?
If we are saved by faith alone, where do works fall in the equation? What does true saving faith look like?
The gospel produces both faith and works. One without the other is what James calls “dead faith”.
Christians are called to not “faith AND works”, not “faith OR works”… but a faith THAT works.
A saving faith means we don’t just talk cheaply—we play too.