{"id":2764,"date":"2024-03-17T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2024-03-17T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T16:36:58","slug":"does-your-pastor-teach-truth-and-practice-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"Does your pastor teach truth and practice love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2186\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/640px-Star_from_the_Lizard_Constellation_Photobombs_Hubble_Observation_342807119661-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gsfc\/34280711966\/\">Star from the Lizard Constellation Credit: ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"text 1Cor-13-1\">&#8220;If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-28651\" class=\"text 1Cor-13-2 psuedo-selection\">And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing&#8230;Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. &#8221; 1 Cor. 13:1-2; 8<\/span><\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s word does not return empty without accomplishing his purposes (Is. 55:11) , which is why it&#8217;s possible to get something out of a sermon preached by a messenger who is otherwise just making noise.\u00a0 A &#8220;good sermon&#8221; can be preached by someone who has failed the test of love. You need a pastor who can preach truth <strong>and<\/strong> who loves like Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"quoteText\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star from the Lizard Constellation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","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=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}