{"id":1107,"date":"2009-12-12T03:59:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2009-12-11T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:59:59","slug":"this-weekend-the-gathering-work-essential-job-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/this-weekend-the-gathering-work-essential-job-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend @ The Gathering: Work Essential; Job Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/TheyPromisedMeChocolate_green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" \/>This weekend at <a href=\"http:g3church.com\">The Gathering <\/a>we\u2019ll be continuing our series <strong>\u201cThey Promised me Chocolate\u201d<\/strong> with installment number 8; <em>dealing with disappointments that we face in our work life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Work is one of those things that so many of us do without thinking about.\u00a0 It\u2019s like breathing or eating.\u00a0 It\u2019s just what we do.\u00a0\u00a0 We follow the path of least resistance or worse than that, we enter into a career path picked out for us by other people without understanding the importance of work.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend we\u2019re going to be talking about the proper perspectives of work and six reasons why it is God\u2019s will that we work.\u00a0 We somehow think that work is a curse from God on mankind.\u00a0 But the truth is, <strong>work is a gift<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to be talking about the difference between career and calling; the difference between jobs and work.\u00a0 Oftentimes we confuse a job with the work we\u2019re supposed to do.\u00a0 One is permanent.\u00a0 The other is temporary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you know someone who\u2019s been laid off, lost their job, or making a transition<\/strong>, this would be a great weekend to bring them.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have a lot of good information to help them make great decisions as they choose a new career or calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend at The Gathering we\u2019ll be continuing our series \u201cThey Promised me Chocolate\u201d with installment number 8; dealing with disappointments that we face in our work life. Work is one of those things that so many of us do without thinking about.\u00a0 It\u2019s like breathing or eating.\u00a0 It\u2019s just what we do.\u00a0\u00a0 We follow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/this-weekend-the-gathering-work-essential-job-optional\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Weekend @ The Gathering: Work Essential; Job Optional&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}