A "gallery of living experience"

Alastair Begg, in Truth for Life: 365 Daily Devotions:

What a great sadness it is when churches become like dusty old libraries, filled with so many lives that are like volumes of truth just sitting there, never used. The temptation as we become increasingly aware of the truth is just to sit and think about it without ever taking action. James put that kind of life in stark terms: it is to deceive yourself. No—a church is to be a gallery of living experience. There out to be a vibrancy about believers, so that when we face the world's many problems—problems we ourselves are not immune to—we can see them for what they are and respond by holding out the truth of God's word as we ourselves live it out.