#119: The Timeless Debate of Faith and Works – What Jesus Actually Taught

This episode takes up one of the longest-running conversations in Christian history: the relationship between faith and works. For nearly two thousand years believers have quoted Paul against James, or James against Paul, and have drawn sharp lines between “faith alone” and “faith plus works.” Entire traditions have been shaped by how that tension is resolved. Yet the more we step back and listen carefully to the words of Jesus Himself, the clearer it becomes that much of the debate has been aimed at the wrong target. The Lord was not primarily interested in settling a theological scorecard between two apostles. He was interested in the condition of the human heart, and in a life so transformed by that heart that light inevitably shines before others.