James 2:14–18 (NIV)

¹⁴ What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? ¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. ¹⁶ If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? ¹⁷ In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 

¹⁸ But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” 

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

We need more than our faith being bragged about. We need it lived out.

NT Wright:

He has heard people talking about ‘faith’, not meaning a rich, lively trust in the loving, living God, but rather a shell, a husk, an empty affirmation, a bare acknowledgement. A body without a spirit.

 Wright, T. (2011). Early Christian Letters for Everyone: James, Peter, John and Judah (p. 17). SPCK; Westminster John Knox Press.

When we allow the rich and powerful to influence our lives and we easily sacrifice the poor to do so… our faith is not a demonstration of the Kingdom of God.