Getting Started

If you’ve had any experience with the book of James, you might be thinking of it as the book about faith and works. We’ll visit that tension in the next lesson. First, let’s see how deeply biblical James is in terms of its Old Testament foundations. Can you guess which part of the Hebrew Scriptures it has the most affinity with?

Once we make that connection clear, you’ll be in a better position to revisit the controversial topic of “works.”