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Real Devotional 36

by David Joynt on June 05, 2022

Real Devotional 36

JAMES 2:14 | 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?

Hypocrisy is the gap between words and deeds. It is the difference between profession and action, philosophy and life, belief and behavior. James is raising the issue in this passage of unreal faith and will go on to deliberate what forms of faith are genuine and which counterfeit.

Jesus also recognized that final judgement would reveal both wheat and tares within the faith community. Genuine and false faith coexist in every church, and only God is in a position to distinguish them, ultimately. In an approximate way, we can distinguish what real faith looks like.

How do you define hypocrisy?

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About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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