{"id":2129,"date":"2010-06-05T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2010-06-05T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:04:07","slug":"tomorrow-the-gathering-why-religious-doctrine-and-certain-beliefs-don%e2%80%99t-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/tomorrow-the-gathering-why-religious-doctrine-and-certain-beliefs-don%e2%80%99t-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow @ The Gathering: Why Religious Doctrine and Certain Beliefs Don\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/flyers\/12steps_icon-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"258\" \/>The world is with religious people who have a lot of beliefs.\u00a0 Statistics tell us that upward of 90 per cent of people believe in God.\u00a0 We are religious despite the few dissenting voices among us.<\/p>\n<p>The question is not, \u201care we religious?\u201d\u00a0 The question is,<strong> \u201cDoes our religion work, or do we have to work it?\u201d <\/strong>This weekend we\u2019re going to talk about why going to church, believing certain things, embracing certain doctrine, and giving assent to certain values don\u2019t necessarily bring about change.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve talked about \u2018Wake Up,\u201d how important that is to admit that we\u2019re powerless to change our nature.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also talked about \u201cLook Up,\u201d that God indeed is not only our Creator, but our source of hope and redemption.\u00a0 This weekend, we\u2019ll talk about <strong>\u201cLine Up;\u201d<\/strong> why it\u2019s important to do more than just wake up and look up.\u00a0 You have to line up.\u00a0 <strong>We\u2019ll talk about why and how to bring your life in alignment with your beliefs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, if God\u2019s not working for you, that\u2019s a good thing.\u00a0 Hopefully you\u2019re at a place in your life where you\u2019re sick and tired of just being religious and you want a life-changing, earth-shattering encounter with God.\u00a0 It is possible and you can have it, no, the truth is, you<em><strong> need it as much as the air you breathe<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Come to <a href=\"http:\/\/g3church.com\">The Gathering<\/a> in the morning and we\u2019ll talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is with religious people who have a lot of beliefs.\u00a0 Statistics tell us that upward of 90 per cent of people believe in God.\u00a0 We are religious despite the few dissenting voices among us. The question is not, \u201care we religious?\u201d\u00a0 The question is, \u201cDoes our religion work, or do we have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/tomorrow-the-gathering-why-religious-doctrine-and-certain-beliefs-don%e2%80%99t-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tomorrow @ The Gathering: Why Religious Doctrine and Certain Beliefs Don\u2019t Work&#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\/2129"}],"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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}