Authenticity - we want it in our leaders, we want it in our partners ... and the world wants to see it in us, we who call ourselves followers of Jesus. What's one of the most frequent criticisms of the church? It's hypocrisy: "I don't go to church because there are too many hypocrites there." Now on one hand the criticism is true - we are hypocrites, every last one of us. Frankly that's why we're in church, because we are very much aware of our desperate need for God's mercy and grace. But while we might not be perfect, we are doing our best to live out what we believe, to practice what we preach. We are putting our faith to work.

And when we put our faith to work, we discover that our faith works. Our faith isn't merely wishful thinking; it isn't a "pie in the sky by and by" faith. It's a faith that works when things go wrong, and it's a faith that works when we're tempted to do wrong. And no book in the New Testament challenges us more directly to live out an authentic Christian life than the book of James. Join us at Cornerstone this fall as we put our faith to the test and discover for ourselves that the Christian faith is a faith that really works.