{"id":2172,"date":"2010-08-02T07:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2010-08-09T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:51:16","slug":"behind-the-curtain-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Curtain: Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarcrestchurch.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2173\" title=\"curtainaug1\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/curtainaug1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/curtainaug1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/curtainaug1.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We started a new series at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarcrestchurch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cedarcrest Church<\/a> called Behind the Curtain. \u00a0Below I have typed out some of my notes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewrightblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">George&#8217;s<\/a> message on Character&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series:<\/strong> Behind the Curtain<br \/>\n<strong>Message<\/strong>: Character (Week 1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Character<\/strong>-Doing what God says is right regardless of the cost. (Andy Stanley)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does a life of Character look like?<\/strong> (Proverbs 11:1-3)<br \/>\nv1-A life of Character delights in honesty<br \/>\nv2-A life of Character walks in humility (wisdom)<br \/>\nv3-A life of Character is guided by integrity<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 common reasons why people lack Character:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe value achievement over character (Proverbs 28:6)<br \/>\nWe value fulfillment over character (Proverbs 20:17)<\/p>\n<p>Where character is lacking relationships suffer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 ways to develop good Character:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. \u00a0Trust the Word of God (Proverbs 3:5-6)<br \/>\n2. \u00a0Spend time with people of character (Psalm 1:1)<br \/>\n3. \u00a0Find your hope in Christ (Romans 5:3-5)<\/p>\n<p>Where do you turn when life gets hard?<\/p>\n<p>Lack of integrity leads to destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started a new series at Cedarcrest Church called Behind the Curtain. \u00a0Below I have typed out some of my notes from George&#8217;s message on Character&#8230; Series: Behind the Curtain Message: Character (Week 1) Character-Doing what God says is right regardless of the cost. (Andy Stanley) What does a life of Character look like? (Proverbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-cedarcrest-church"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}