They can even look back on years of pleasant memories. But Jesus does not call you to religion, Jesus calls you to faith. Faith, Precious One, will change you. Faith will make you enjoy your life where you are and will promise hope for your future. Faith will make you jump out of the stands and onto the playing field with Jesus.
Faith is a contact sport.
It is not enough, James says, to hear the word of God. It is not enough to know the rules. It is not enough to be an authority on what should and should not be done in the church. Faith, James is says, is not a spectator sport. No wonder religion in this world so often becomes a spectator sport.