{"id":643,"date":"2009-02-02T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2009-02-02T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:02:34","slug":"freedom-church-we-bare-all-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Church: We Bare All Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/we-bare-all.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-637\" title=\"we-bare-all\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/we-bare-all-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/we-bare-all-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/we-bare-all.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great kickoff to the We Bare All series at Freedom Church.\u00a0 There has been a bunch of talk around town about what is going on at Freedom.\u00a0 This series is an effort to demonstrate that Christians struggle with the same things that non-Christians do..often on an even grander scale!\u00a0 This first week kicked off with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrlive.net\" target=\"_blank\">Pastor<\/a> talking about the fact that sometimes he is not who he says he is.\u00a0 Tons of great thoughts and notes from this one.\u00a0 Hope these give you something to think about.\u00a0 Our text was Luke 18:9-14.<\/p>\n<p>-Sometimes I&#8217;m not exactly who you think I am.<\/p>\n<p>-Sometimes the most judgemental people are found within the walls of the church.<\/p>\n<p>-The reason we point out the faults of others is because it makes it easier to camouflage our own shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>-Humility is one of those things that if you think you&#8217;ve got it, you really don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>-Don&#8217;t ask God to humble you, humble yourself.<\/p>\n<p>-I Peter 5:5 &#8220;God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Jesus doesn&#8217;t work in the lives of those who pretend to have it all together.\u00a0 Jesus works in the lives of those who know they don&#8217;t have it all together.<\/p>\n<p>-If you want a perfect pastor, you are at the wrong church.<\/p>\n<p>-I refuse to believe that God is finished with me.<\/p>\n<p>-If you are breathing, God is not done with you yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great kickoff to the We Bare All series at Freedom Church.\u00a0 There has been a bunch of talk around town about what is going on at Freedom.\u00a0 This series is an effort to demonstrate that Christians struggle with the same things that non-Christians do..often on an even grander scale!\u00a0 This first week kicked off with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}