{"id":6214,"date":"2020-10-28T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:45:39","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-november-1st-a-cursed-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6214","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, November 1st: &#8220;A Cursed Exchange&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6217\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/baby-1150109_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/baby-1150109_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/baby-1150109_1280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/baby-1150109_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/baby-1150109_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6216\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6216\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6216 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hands-1903104_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hands-1903104_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hands-1903104_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hands-1903104_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hands-1903104_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s so easy to sound noble when a circumstance is purely hypothetical. Let me give you a couple of examples to make my case: We say we care about the opioid crisis that\u2019s wreaking havoc among America\u2019s youth today, but are we willing to open our home to them till they conquer their addiction? Or, we say we\u2019re Prolife through and through, but are we willing to adopt the child of the next client at Bright Hope Pregnancy Support Center who chooses life, then adoption, for her as yet unborn child? You see, we can talk a good game, but are we willing to walk out onto the sociological ballfield to play?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6218\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6218\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6218\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rome-2160788_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rome-2160788_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rome-2160788_1280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rome-2160788_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rome-2160788_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This coming Sunday, we\u2019ll be turning a subject corner in our ongoing study of the Apostle Paul\u2019s letter to the Church in Rome. Having just finished expounding on the doctrine of Sanctification, how we can sustain our walk of faith, Paul next addressed a topic that logically sprang into the minds of many a Jew who had been listening to Paul\u2019s letter read aloud in their ancient church: <em>\u201cWhat about us? What has become of our Chosen People status since Christianity appears to have pushed us to the side? What about all those Promises God had made to us in time past?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?attachment_id=6219\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6219\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-1784559_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-1784559_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-1784559_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-1784559_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-1784559_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why not join us this Sunday, either in person or on livestream, as we begin to answer this fair question in the sermon I have entitled, <em>\u201cA Cursed Exchange?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so easy to sound noble when a circumstance is purely hypothetical. Let me give you a couple of examples to make my case: We say we care about the opioid crisis that\u2019s wreaking havoc among America\u2019s youth today, but are we willing to open our home to them till they conquer their addiction? Or, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6214\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-6214","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stained-glass-4573950_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","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=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}