Sunday Devotions: Good Work

James 1-2

Good work(s) is a complicated idea for us Protestants. On the one hand, “good works” are the bugaboo of our soteriology, a theology of glory that centers human effort rather than God’s grace. On the other hand, “good work” is one of the highest compliments we can give or receive, a reminder of a “Protestant work ethic” that supposedly values productivit…