The Book of James Bible Study Instructor & Student Worksheet James 1 Please read the first chapter for the week preceding the first class. Note some questions and comments that you will bring to class. #1 #2 #3 What do we know about the author? Matthew 13:55-56 Mark 6:3 James the Lord’s brother: Galatians 1:18-20 Jude 1 Who was the original audience ? What does diaspora mean?   διασπορά, ᾶς, ἡ Strongs 1290 James – Chapter 1 How long is the letter’s salutation?   1 verse Compare this to other New Testament letters. 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 Philippians 1:1-11 1 John 1:1-4 James gets down to business right away.   How does he tell us to handle trials of all sorts?   With joy! Why?   God is at work in you during your trials.   Your faithfulness and perseverance produce Christian maturity. What does maturity mean in this context?   Consider this question:   Where are you in your Christian maturity?   What do you k

The Month of the Bible The Book of James Imagine going through life and always needing a curriculum.   Sure, these were helpful in secondary and post-secondary education, technical schools, military education and training, and other instances where instruction is involved.   Most were didactic, instructor-led, and in some ways scripted. At some point you learned to learn without rigid curriculum.   One of the precepts of Adult Education is that life experience matters and who better to tie experience to the subject matter than the learner himself.   A second precept is that at the outcome of the adult learning experience, learners may have more questions than answers.   This is actually a good thing.   There should be a hunger to learn more. One problem with adult learning is that relying too much on experience and not much on new  material produces confirmation of what we already know without new learning.   In order to advance learning, the hunger to learn must remai