You see dissonance is when who I am no longer lines up with who I had hoped to be or how I hope others see me. It happens so often and so subtly that most of the time you and I don’t even realize it’s going on. We all know that major dissonance (or compromise) doesn’t crop up overnight. It starts small. So small that we might not recognize it in ourselves or want to acknowledge it. This morning we’re going to open to the Book of James, chapter one.
If we just leave it as something that is heard or read and not acted upon that we are literally deceiving ourselves into thinking we accomplished something. How often have we become hearers of the Word without being doers?? How often have you read your Bible in the morning only to forget what the passage is that you read by the time you reach work or school? How often have you forgotten the point of the sermon by the time you get to Sunday lunch? Right. Cue the silence. We’ve all been guilty of being hearers without following up that hearing with doing.