{"id":1414,"date":"2023-11-02T23:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2023-11-03T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T00:00:18","slug":"transparency-at-the-chapel-hill-bible-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Transparency at the Chapel Hill Bible Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0; margin-bottom: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1412 aligncenter\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/640px-NASA_Unveils_Celestial_Fireworks_as_Official_Hubble_25th_Anniversary_Image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/640px-NASA_Unveils_Celestial_Fireworks_as_Official_Hubble_25th_Anniversary_Image1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/640px-NASA_Unveils_Celestial_Fireworks_as_Official_Hubble_25th_Anniversary_Image1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 800; text-align: center; padding-bottom: 0;\">Star cluster Westerlund 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\">Photo Credits:\u00a0<a title=\"NASA\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\">NASA<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"ESA\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/ESA\">ESA<\/a>, <a title=\"Hubble Space Telescope\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Hubble_Space_Telescope\">the Hubble Heritage\u00a0Team<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">STScI<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aura-astronomy.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">AURA<\/a>), A. Nota (<a title=\"ESA\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/ESA\">ESA<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">STScI<\/a>), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>God is love.<\/strong> (1 John 4:7)\u00a0 <strong>God is light.<\/strong> (I John 1:5)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">People are created in the image of the God who loves them. He desires that we live in the freedom of walking in the light. The Gospel message sets us free from hiding, from trying to look different than we are. We are loved. And because we are loved, \u00a0we are free to walk in the light without fear, admitting when we are wrong, and finding forgiveness and deep relationship with God and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c<em>God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and\u00a0do not practice the truth. But\u00a0if we walk in the light,\u00a0as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and\u00a0the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and\u00a0the truth is not in us.\u00a0If we confess our sins, he is\u00a0faithful and just to forgive us our sins and\u00a0to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\u00a0<strong><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>If we say we have not sinned,\u00a0we make him a liar, and\u00a0his word is not in us.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 <em>1 John 1: 5-10<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cTransparency\u201d is the word used in vernacular English in a way that reflects the Biblical concept of \u201cwalking in the light.\u201d \u00a0In posts to come, we\u2019ll be examining transparency at the Chapel Hill Bible Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Star cluster Westerlund 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-transparency"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}