Often times, we get caught up in just preaching the Bible and encouraging people to have hope and faith, to the point that we forget that without action, these things are dead. Preaching the Bible is important, and we will never try to lower the significance of preaching the Gospel. Romans 10:14, “14 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?” But that’s not all we are called to do.
James explains it like this, James 2:14-17, “14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
As a ministry and a family, we take both of these Scriptures very seriously. We can preach the Gospel all day, but unless we are out in the community helping, we are not doing all we as Christians are called to do.
