{"id":648,"date":"2009-02-09T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-02-09T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T02:10:51","slug":"freedom-church-we-bare-all-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Church: We Bare All Week 2"},"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>Lots of folks came back for Week 2 of We Bare All at Freedom Church.\u00a0 J.R. talked this week about the fact that &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Like Most Christians&#8221;.\u00a0 The text was Mark 3:1-6 and here were some notes I took.<\/p>\n<p>1. Christians are really weird (testamints, bookstores, clothing, etc.)<br \/>\n2. Christians are judgemental<br \/>\n-We are good at finding faults, but not so good at distributing help<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 Christians are hypocritical<br \/>\n-Our deeds don&#8217;t always match our creeds<\/p>\n<p>-The Christian that I can&#8217;t stand the most is me.<\/p>\n<p>-Jesus always calls to the front those that religion pushes to the back.<\/p>\n<p>**Read all the way to the bottom&#8230;this point turned out awesome!<\/p>\n<p>-Jesus can do whatever he wants to do<\/p>\n<p>-Sometimes the people who seem the closest to Jesus are really the furthest away<\/p>\n<p>-Sometimes truth gets trumped by preferences and traditions<\/p>\n<p>-we are not waiting on God&#8230;He is waiting on us to be ready for what He has in store for us<\/p>\n<p>-Christians are the only army in the world that shoots their wounded<\/p>\n<p>-Do we judge or do we love? Do we help or do we hurt? Do we point a finger or do we lift a hand?<\/p>\n<p>-We can accuse all we want to, but Jesus came to heal<\/p>\n<p>-How often do we allow our ignorance get in the way of the truth?<\/p>\n<p>We have a homeless guy that comes to our church.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been there for several months now and everyone knows him.\u00a0 Pretty cool guy.\u00a0 Clint has talked to him a few times.\u00a0 We have a guy in our church that usually brings him.\u00a0 Yesterday he needed a ride, so the Acworth Police Department picked him up and dropped him off at Freedom Church.\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00a0 The PD brought him to church!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;all throughout J.R.&#8217;s message, he was making the point that Jesus always brings to the front those that religion and society push to the back.\u00a0 As the message came to an end and the band started playing, our favorite homeless guy made his way to the front of the auditorium.\u00a0 He slowly walked to the front and then he sat down on the front row.\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00a0 I know several folks saw him up there, but it was a great image of what Jesus wants to do in all of our lives.\u00a0 He wants to rescue us, change us, and then put us on display for His glory!<\/p>\n<p>Great morning at Freedom!\u00a0 Can&#8217;t wait for Week 3 of We Bare All.\u00a0 See you next week at Barber Middle School at 10:30.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t come alone&#8230;bring a friend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks came back for Week 2 of We Bare All at Freedom Church.\u00a0 J.R. talked this week about the fact that &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Like Most Christians&#8221;.\u00a0 The text was Mark 3:1-6 and here were some notes I took. 1. Christians are really weird (testamints, bookstores, clothing, etc.) 2. Christians are judgemental -We are [&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-648","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\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}