{"id":2007,"date":"2010-05-16T15:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2010-05-16T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T21:14:43","slug":"today-the-gathering-how-to-start-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-how-to-start-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: How to Start Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Well now that we\u2019re working hard to recover from the flood here in Nashville, I can\u2019t think of a better time to talk about not just how to start over, but how to start something new, fresh, bold, and exciting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Often times in church we talk about theoretical things.\u00a0 Hardly do we ever talk about the application or the \u201chow-to\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 So the past several weeks in the HOW series, we\u2019ve talked about How to Make Peace With God, How to Hear From God, How to Manage Stress<\/strong>, and today we talked about How to Start Something.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was raised in a blue-collar home where my parents worked for other people.\u00a0 We had a \u201cwork for the man\u201d <\/em>mentality.\u00a0 And yet as I\u2019ve grown and gotten older, I\u2019ve realized that every person truly does work for themselves. You are your own corporation. You may show up and punch a clock and get paid so much, but the truth is when you stand before God you\u2019re going to be responsible for the work that you\u2019ve done; not the corporation, not the company, not \u201cthe man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Often we think to start something you have to have cash, connections, and control.\u00a0 Those are the three big ones, aren\u2019t they?\u00a0 With those, you can do anything. The truth of the matter is those three commodities come and go, ebb and flow throughout all of life.<\/p>\n

Yeah, cash can buy you a lot of stuff, but it can\u2019t buy you success. Connections can help get you to the right places but they can\u2019t convince the right people to be part of your venture.\u00a0 And control is really great when you\u2019re up.\u00a0 You can treat people any way you want to.\u00a0 But the truth is, what comes up always goes down.\u00a0 And when you lose control, then what do you do?<\/p>\n

If you really want to start something \u2013 a business, an idea, a movement \u2013 to not just make money (although you can do that) but to change the world, to leave a legacy, and make a difference<\/strong><\/em>, all you need is four things.\u00a0 You need a core<\/strong>, you need a calling<\/strong>, you need a cause<\/strong>, and you need a conduit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Today we talked about how each one of these comes out of the other.\u00a0 Without a solid core, you won\u2019t be able to survive the changes that are inevitably going to come.\u00a0 Without a sense of calling, you\u2019ll bring no identity or uniqueness to what you do.\u00a0 Without a sense of cause, you\u2019ll give up and quit.\u00a0 And without a conduit or a platform, no one will ever know who you are, or what you offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well now that we\u2019re working hard to recover from the flood here in Nashville, I can\u2019t think of a better time to talk about not just how to start over, but how to start something new, fresh, bold, and exciting. Often times in church we talk about theoretical things.\u00a0 Hardly do we ever talk about … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering: How to Start Something”<\/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\/2007"}],"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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}