Discussing Faith & Works Together, Part 2 (TMF:2006)

Monday, January 16, 2023
Peace to Live By: Discussing Faith & Works Together, Part 2 (TMF:2006) - Daniel Litton
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       Let me try to provide an example here, an illustration, for us to better understand what we are talking about in this section. I’ll take the example of two psychologists. There is first a practicing psychologist, who practices day in and day out in counseling people to try to help them with their problems. Now let’s pretend for a second that this person is not using his doctorate and doesn’t have a practice—doesn’t try to help people. Instead, let’s say this person works in a factory building cars. If this person were to say, “I am a psychologist. I have a doctorate in psychology. I am a doctor,” and yet didn’t do anything with that schooling, another practicing psychologist might respond, “Well, you have the qualifications to be a psychologist, but you’re not a currently practicing psychologist.” The other psychologist would be correct in that response. So, we might re-phrase the sentence from James in this instance, “Show me your doctorate apart from your practice, and I will show you my doctorate by my practice.”