{"id":7157,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/real-men-love-jesus\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","slug":"real-men-love-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/real-men-love-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Men Love Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Philippians series.   Qualities of Christian men.   Phil 2:19-30<\/p>\n<p>                             ===================<br \/>\n                             REAL MEN LOVE JESUS<br \/>\n                             ===================<\/p>\n<p>     I. How macho is your man?<\/p>\n<p>    II. Caring.                                                      2:20-21<br \/>\n         A. God is looking for men who put people before profits.<br \/>\n         B. Over the long haul, relationships are more valuable than things.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Consistent.                                                     2:22<br \/>\n         A. God is looking for men who put character before conformity.<br \/>\n         B. We need men of conviction, who cannot be bought at any price.<br \/>\n         C. Success over the long haul is built on character, not on image.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Cooperative.                                                   2:25a<br \/>\n         A. God is looking for men who put cooperation before competition.<br \/>\n         B. Family, fellowship, fight.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Committed.                                                  2:25b-27<br \/>\n         A. God wants men who put the cause of Christ before comfort.<br \/>\n         B. God uses men of action who take the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>    VI. Courageous.                                                  2:29-30<br \/>\n         A. Gambling for God.<br \/>\n         B. God is looking for men who will put service before security.<\/p>\n<p>   VII. God doesn&#8217;t need super stars.<\/p>\n<p> [heavily adapted from Rick Warren, Part-6]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Philippians series. Qualities of Christian men. Phil 2:19-30 =================== REAL MEN LOVE JESUS =================== I. How macho is your man? II. Caring. 2:20-21 A. God is looking for men who put people before profits. B. Over the long haul, relationships are more valuable than things. III. Consistent. 2:22 A. God is looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[359,5,5034,1307,402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}