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Pacman Jones is a uniquely gifted athelete. Paris Hilton is a media diva. Pacman is from the mean streets of Atlanta. Paris is from the mountains of Malibu. At first glance these two have nothing in common, but a closer look reveals that they do indeed share more than the fact that they have had run-ins with the law.<\/p>\n
Pacman showed up this week in Las Vegas to turn himself in to the police. He was sporting a new haircut. According to his attorney, Pacman\u2019s short hair is a sign that he has changed\u2014if it were only that easy.<\/p>\n
Paris, in a phone interview with E\u2019s Ryan Seacrest, says that jail has changed her life.<\/p>\n
Paris and Pacman are changed people? But are they? Is change really that easy and that quick; or that painless?<\/p>\n
A new haircut and a few days in jail make make cosmetic changes possible, but what we\u2019re really talking about here is image. What Paris, Pacman, you, and I need is a change inside that works itself out in our behavior.<\/p>\n
One of the Scriptures that has always intimidated me is in 2 Corinthians 5:17:<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n Here is the problem; I am a Christian (AKA; follower of Christ) but I am not completely changed into the person I ought to be.\u00a0 And I am not the only one.<\/p>\n Way too much of Christianity is nothing more than a disembodied form of religion. We say we\u2019re changed, but you can\u2019t see or hear the change in the way we behave in word and deed.<\/p>\n Changing from the inside out is an issue of integrity not image.<\/p>\n You talk about integrity; Jesus had perfect integrity. By that I mean Jesus was always and at all times everything He should have been. He was totally integrated. There was no defect or flaw in his private and public life.<\/p>\n As a Christ follower, the change I see is slow and progressive. On this journey to the new me, I know it takes a lot more than a haircut or an image overhaul to really change into the person I long to be.<\/p>\n My goal is progress not perfection.<\/p>\n Pacman and Paris may be able to change over a weekend, but for me to change into the loving, generous, godly man I long to be is a day-to-day, lifetime struggle.<\/p>\n How are you changing from the inside out? Are you focused on image (outside) or integrity (inside)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pacman Jones is a uniquely gifted athelete. Paris Hilton is a media diva. Pacman is from the mean streets of Atlanta. Paris is from the mountains of Malibu. At first glance these two have nothing in common, but a closer look reveals that they do indeed share more than the fact that they have had … Continue reading “What do Pacman and Paris Hilton have in common?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}