{"id":1413,"date":"2010-02-07T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2010-02-07T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:51:29","slug":"today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-you-attract-what-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-you-attract-what-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering \u2013 You Attract What You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"IG_Icon\"<\/a>Today @ The Gathering<\/a> we brought our current series, \u201cInspire Greatness\u201d<\/strong> to a conclusion with the message, \u201cYou Attract What You Are.\u201d<\/strong> If you wonder why you don\u2019t have stronger friendships and better people in your life, ask yourself this question:\u00a0 \u201cAre the people around me a reflection of me?\u201d\u00a0 What you\u2019ll find if you\u2019re honest, is that you have around you the people that have been attracted to you because you\u2019ve been sending out a certain message.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n

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  1. If you have people around you who seem calm and collected on the outside, but all fretful, worried and paralyzed by fear on the inside, you\u2019ve attracted ducks<\/strong>. That\u2019s what ducks do don\u2019t they?\u00a0 They look calm floating on the pond, but underneath their little feet are working\u00a0 feverishly, tirelessly.<\/li>\n
  2. If you have around you people who are constantly back-biting and gossiping about each other; if relationships are constantly broken and in need of repair, if someone always is angry and pouting, then maybe you\u2019ve attracted parrots. <\/strong> Parrots are birds that repeat what they hear.\u00a0 If you have gossipers and repeaters around you, maybe you yourself are a gossip.\u00a0 One of the hardest things to face is to realize one day that you are the person who has caused the turmoil because you have spread the lie or a half-truth.<\/li>\n
  3. If you have around you people who have every reason to be thankful, but no power to be so, then you\u2019ve attracted turkeys.<\/strong> Turkeys are the only ones who have to die in order to attend the Thanksgiving Day celebration. In other words, if you\u2019re around people who have found no reason to be grateful, who have a victim\u2019s mentality, it may be that\u2019s what you\u2019re displaying.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On the other hand, if you gather people around you who are inspiring, who bring out your better angels, then you\u2019ve attracted eagles.<\/strong> We talked about the three ways in which you attract good people into your life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. By becoming a practical model.<\/strong> That is, you model the kind of behavior you seek.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we do as followers of Christ.\u00a0 We have two motivations: love and generosity.\u00a0 We\u2019re teachers at heart.\u00a0 We\u2019re not selling anything.\u00a0 We\u2019re not trying to force people to change or comply with a code.\u00a0 We\u2019re people who are motivated by love.\u00a0 We want to set people free.\u00a0 We want to be generous.\u00a0 We model the behavior that is consistent with who we are in Christ.<\/li>\n
    2. By becoming a practicing mentor.<\/strong> A mentor is a model who you\u2019ve brought close.\u00a0 Models can be people you read about in the Bible or in books, people you\u2019ve seen.\u00a0 But mentors are people who are right around you.\u00a0 They are the people you ask into your life, who come close to speak into the way you spend this precious thing we call life.<\/li>\n
    3. By becoming a principled motivator. <\/strong> The Scriptures tell us we are to spur one another on.\u00a0 A spur is what a cowboy uses to get his horse to advance.\u00a0 A lot of people misread this verse and think that what we\u2019re supposed to do is spar, to argue, to separate, to nag, or to compare.\u00a0 We\u2019re to spur one another on to love and good works.\u00a0 These are the things that motivate us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The genius of how Christianity has changed the world is found in these three principles: the principles of modeling, mentoring, and motivating.\u00a0 Each one of us is called to carry out these activities.<\/strong> We are called to be models of what it means to be loving, generous, and godly; to be mentors, to engage, to ask people to walk with us, to submit to their counsel, their advice.\u00a0 And also do that for others.\u00a0 We\u2019re to be connected to each other.\u00a0 The simple purpose of The Gathering is to connect people to God and each other for the purpose of changing the world.\u00a0 This is a simple strategy.\u00a0 That\u2019s why we specialize in God simple, not church complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Today @ The Gathering we brought our current series, \u201cInspire Greatness\u201d to a conclusion with the message, \u201cYou Attract What You Are.\u201d If you wonder why you don\u2019t have stronger friendships and better people in your life, ask yourself this question:\u00a0 \u201cAre the people around me a reflection of me?\u201d\u00a0 What you\u2019ll find if you\u2019re … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering \u2013 You Attract What You Are”<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}