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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

A top U.S. Catholic Church official has resigned after cell phone data was used to

track him on Grindr, a queer dating app, and to gay bars. Twelve women filed a lawsuit Tuesday

against Liberty University, accusing the school of a pattern of mishandling cases of sexual assault and harassment.

And a Southern Baptist megachurch in Florida was shocked and devastated

to learn that a former campus pastor was recently arrested for allegedly grooming and sexually assaulting a young girl

from the age of 12 until she turned 17.

When Christians make the news for all the wrong reasons, how should we respond to our

critics and the larger culture?

Let's consider three facts and then focus on a powerful personal strategy.

One, Christianity never promises that Christians will be perfect.

Scripture warns in 1.1.8, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth

is not in us. Across God's word and human history, it is difficult to find a great person of faith

who did not also struggle with personal failure and weakness. It is unfair to blame a religion

for breaking a promise it never made. Two, conversely, God holds his children to a much higher

standard than our fallen culture.

Those who place their faith in Christ as Lord are a new creation.

God's Word exhorts God's people in Philippians 4-8.

Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable,

if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

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