{"id":6861,"date":"2021-12-30T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:19:48","slug":"sermon-synopsis-for-sunday-january-2nd-dont-look-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=6861","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Synopsis for Sunday, January 2nd: “Don’t Look Down”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Too many among the unchurched in our culture accuse us of hypocrisy. They criticize us as spiritual snobs who deem ourselves as better than everybody else, that we persistently look down on others. Man, I hope they\u2019re wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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However, I\u2019m more concerned about how we view each other, that is, within the Church. Do some of us look down on others of us because they don\u2019t measure up to our spiritual standards?\u00a0\u201cSo & So won\u2019t miss a party, but she sure skips worship a lot.\u201d \u201cSo & So sits glued before the TV to watch his favorite sport\u2019s team play, but he never attends Growth Group.\u201d \u201cSuch & Such couple makes time for friends outside the church family, but rarely inside.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oh, there\u2019s no way we would ever verbalize such judgmental grudges \u2013 except when we take to gossip.\u00a0Please join us this Sunday to hear how God would rather have us\u00a0treat one another within our church family.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too many among the unchurched in our culture accuse us of hypocrisy. They criticize us as spiritual snobs who deem ourselves as better than everybody else, that we persistently look down on others. Man, I hope they\u2019re wrong. However, I\u2019m more concerned about how we view each other, that is, within the Church. Do some … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6862,"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-6861","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cartoon-g3199a3d32_1280.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","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=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}