The document discusses adopting a "quick, slow, slow" approach to listening, speaking, and anger. It advises being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. It also discusses properly handling feelings of anger and not letting anger control us. The document encourages examining ourselves, not just listening to scripture but doing what it says. It suggests escaping the pollution of the world and engaging in service, such as helping orphans and widows.

1. Gary Gilmore

2. Series – ‘Developing a faith that works’
Today
‘Don’t just listen –
do it!’
James 1:19-27

3. ‘Adopt the quick, slow, slow approach’
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this:
everyone should be quick to listen, slow to
speak and slow to become angry, because
human anger does not produce the
righteousness that God desires
James 1:19-20

4. ‘Adopt the quick, slow, slow approach’
Be quick to listen and slow to speak
Even fools are thought wise
if they keep silent, and discerning
if they hold their tongues
Prov 17:28

5. ‘Adopt the quick, slow, slow approach’
Be slow to become angry
A patient person has great understanding,
but a quick-tempered person displays folly
Prov 14:29
The fruit of the Spirit is … patience
Gal 5:22

6. ‘Adopt the quick, slow, slow approach’
How do we handle our feelings of anger?
Admit you’re angry
Understand your anger
Deal with your anger
Share your feelings with God

7. ‘Adopt the quick, slow, slow approach’
How do we handle our feelings of anger?
… human anger does not produce the
righteousness that God desires. Therefore,
get rid of all moral filth … and humbly accept
the word planted in you, which can save you
James 1:20-21

8. ‘Adopt the quick, slow, slow approach’
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
all unrighteousness
1 John 1:8-9

9. ‘Don’t just listen to the Word - do it’
Do not merely listen to the word,
and so deceive yourselves.
Do what it says.
James 1:22

10. ‘Don’t just listen to the Word - do it’
Examine yourself
Anyone who listens to the Word but does
not do what it says is like someone who
looks at his face in a mirror and, after
looking at himself, goes away and
immediately forgets what s/he looks like
James 1:23-24

11. ‘Don’t just listen to the Word - do it’
Examine yourself
But whoever looks intently into the
perfect law that gives freedom and
continues in it – not forgetting what
they have heard but doing it – they will
be blessed in what they do
James 1:25

12. ‘Don’t just listen to the Word - do it’
Examine yourself
Those who consider themselves religious
and yet do not keep a tight rein on their
tongues deceive themselves, and their
religion is worthless
James 1:26

13. ‘Don’t just listen to the Word - do it’
Engage in Service
Religion that God our Father accepts as
pure and faultless is this: to look after
orphans and widows in their distress …
James 1:27

14. ‘Don’t just listen to the Word - do it’
Escape the pollution of the world
to keep oneself from being
polluted by the world
James 1:27b

15. Adopt the ‘quick, slow, slow’ approach
Don’t just listen to the Word – do it
• Escape the pollution
• Engage in Service
• Examine yourself