John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress gives a helpful metaphor for the book of James. Christian and Hopeful were finding the narrow way difficult. “They wished for a smoother path,” Bunyan writes. “Soon they saw a little way ahead of them a pleasant-looking field called By-Path Meadow.”[2] It looked easier and more comfortable, but in By-Path Meadow […]
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