{"id":8294,"date":"2019-05-26T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=8294"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:30:55","slug":"be-holy","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/be-holy\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='100' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/scbc.com\/file\/d\/1ofg4Rb1nWkZS8h0hSPKCvsJzkWLTEs5-\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><p><span class=\"gdm-drivefile-embed\"><img src=\"https:\/\/drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com\/16\/type\/application\/pdf\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/scbc.com\/file\/d\/1J7OhifijzeDGoFf8jozbE5kzTSSKx1Uc\/view?usp=drivesdk\" target=\"_blank\">View\/Download Sermon PowerPoint<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>Perceptions dominate our society. From social media, to the way we present ourselves at school, work, and social situations, we spend a good amount of time cultivating our personal images. We care about the way people perceive&nbsp;us. We care what people think about us. Whether we know it or not, whether we want to admit it or not, we want people to think of us in a certain way.<br><br>But what is our reality, versus perception?&nbsp;As followers of Christ, our reality is that through God&#8217;s great mercy, we have been given a new birth in the living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3). Our reality is that we are called to&nbsp;<strong>be holy<\/strong>, just as he who called us is holy (1 Peter 1:15). Our reality is that we are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the excellencies of him who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light (1 Peter 2:9). If that is our reality, then what do we project? What do people perceive from our pattern of life? Are people&#8217;s perceptions of us, as followers of Christ, consistent with our reality as God&#8217;s chosen people, and our call to declare God&#8217;s excellencies?<br><br>This Sunday, as we dive into 1 Peter 1:13-2:12, we&#8217;ll be discovering that being holy is not just a checklist of moral behavior that we keep a track of. It&#8217;s not just doing the things that we think a Christian should be doing (or not doing). Being holy means being&nbsp;<strong>set apart<\/strong>&nbsp;for God. It means that as a people who are set apart for God, we live our lives in a way that is distinct from the patterns of the world, so that, when people see us,&nbsp;<strong>they see and perceive the reality of Jesus in the world<\/strong>.<br><br>&#8220;In the community of believers, that&#8217;s where God&#8217;s presence is supposed to be, and where heaven shows up on the planet&#8230;The community is Jesus to the world.&#8221; -James Choung.&nbsp;<br><br>See y&#8217;all Sunday!<br><br>Pastor Will<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter 1:13-2:10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[163],"ctc_sermon_series":[478],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[267],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8294\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}