Real. Simple. Faith.

How did things get so complicated?  In a new series at CP Northshore, we will look at the book of James, and find out what real, simple faith looks like.

Between dogma, tradition, 10 steps to this, 30 days to a better that, programs, and principles, whatever happened to the basics?  Christianity was never meant to be a long, involved, complicated process.  It’s not supposed to be weird and mystical, and it’s definitely not supposed to be difficult to understand.  In this new series at CP|Northshore|, let’s take it back to the start and look at what the early church did.

The New Testament book of James was written for new believers.  Jesus had just done His thing on Earth, left and went to heaven, the power of the Holy Spirit had just come to the followers of Jesus, the church was growing like wildfire, and they were leaderless. And directionless.  So the author of James basically wrote “This New Thing That Everybody’s Calling Christianity for Dummies.” It’s a basic how-to. The early church needed to know what old Jewish traditions they had to let go of, what to do when things get tough, what it meant to “love your neighbor,” general how-to-follow-Jesus stuff.  And who better to tell it than the brother of Jesus himself, James.