{"id":2134,"date":"2010-06-06T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2010-06-06T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T20:19:22","slug":"today-the-gathering-why-believing-and-belonging-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-why-believing-and-belonging-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: Why Believing and Belonging is Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" \/>Today @ <a href=\"http:\/\/g3church.com\">The Gathering<\/a> we continued our series \u201c12 Steps Up: How Messy People Mature\u201d with Step 3: <strong>Line Up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the problem most people have with religion and spiritual things. They believe it\u2019s just about believing certain things: \u201cI believe certain things about God, certain truth statements about Jesus, certain confessions and admissions about my life and the lives of others.\u201d\u00a0 And they think that\u2019s enough.\u00a0 <strong>Believing is not enough.<\/strong> It has <em>never<\/em> been enough.\u00a0 It will only make you miserable.\u00a0 Believing stuff you don\u2019t live out in the real world is just another weight.<\/p>\n<p>So today we talked about lining our lives up \u2013 alignment.\u00a0 We know what alignment\u2019s about.\u00a0 Get in a car where the wheels are out of alignment and the car will shake you to death, wear out the tires, and ruin the experience.\u00a0 It will also ultimately destroy the whole vehicle.\u00a0 Just one tire out of alignment is all it takes.\u00a0 <strong>Misalignment over time equals misery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So this morning we talked about how to bring your life into alignment.\u00a0 We\u2019ve talked about Wake Up, we\u2019ve talked about Look Up, and today we talked about Line Up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ The Gathering we continued our series \u201c12 Steps Up: How Messy People Mature\u201d with Step 3: Line Up. Here is the problem most people have with religion and spiritual things. They believe it\u2019s just about believing certain things: \u201cI believe certain things about God, certain truth statements about Jesus, certain confessions and admissions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-why-believing-and-belonging-is-not-enough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering: Why Believing and Belonging is Not Enough&#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":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134"}],"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=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}