{"id":606,"date":"2015-04-15T21:43:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=606"},"modified":"2015-04-15T21:43:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:43:21","slug":"sunday-sermon-synopsis-for-419-pressing-for-perfection-phil-312-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sermon Synopsis for 4\/19: Pressing for Perfection \u2013 Phil. 3:12-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/perfect.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-609\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/perfect.png\" alt=\"perfect\" width=\"341\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>Context is everything!<\/strong> For example,\u00a0Bo Derek\u00a0became famous as\u00a0<em>&#8220;the Perfect<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>10&#8243;<\/em>\u00a0from her starring role in the 1979 movie, &#8220;10&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Why so? For the obvious reason that between her\u00a0natural God-given figure\u00a0coupled with her disciplined\u00a0diet and exercise program, Bo looked pretty good.\u00a0But let me pose the relevant question:\u00a0<em>&#8220;Who determined<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>that Bo D&#8217;s measurements, whatever they were, showed off the perfect<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>figure?&#8221;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>The movie Producer,\u00a0Blake Edwards? Some organized beauty contest? Some random popularity poll?<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s say that back then, she had put on a\u00a0half inch around her hips; too much celebrating after the movie&#8217;s success. Would she have\u00a0lost her Perfect 10 rating?\u00a0But even more realistically, Bo&#8217;s now\u00a0age 58. I dare say\u00a0that consensus opinion\u00a0may now regard her as an\u00a0<em>&#8220;Imperfect 9&#8221;<\/em>. But whether we&#8217;re considering Bo at age 20 when she made the film or today at age 58,\u00a0her beauty is not static;\u00a0it&#8217;s ever-changing.\u00a0So where am I going with all this? Right here:\u00a0Perfection\u00a0is clearly non-absolute. A\u00a0perfect figure imperfectly fluctuates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But there is a perfection, other than God Himself, that doesn&#8217;t; it is absolute. Come this Sunday to learn more about that Perfection.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context is everything! For example,\u00a0Bo Derek\u00a0became famous as\u00a0&#8220;the Perfect\u00a010&#8243;\u00a0from her starring role in the 1979 movie, &#8220;10&#8221;. Why so? For the obvious reason that between her\u00a0natural God-given figure\u00a0coupled with her disciplined\u00a0diet and exercise program, Bo looked pretty good.\u00a0But let me pose the relevant question:\u00a0&#8220;Who determined\u00a0that Bo D&#8217;s measurements, whatever they were, showed off the perfect\u00a0figure?&#8221;\u00a0The&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastors-desk","category-sermon-preview","tag-sunday-sermon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}