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One of my pet-peeves are people who call themselves Christians, and who believe that their faith is only about their personal relationship with God.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\nOne of my pet-peeves are people who call themselves Christians, and who believe that their faith is only about their personal relationship with God.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n
Jesus made it very clear that our relationship with God<\/strong>, the health or lack thereof, is reflected in the relationships of the people around us.<\/strong><\/p>\n This weekend as we continue our series \u201c12 Steps Up: How Messy People Mature,\u201d we\u2019ll be talking about Step # 8, Follow Up<\/strong>; which means that once we\u2019ve awakened to our powerlessness, looked up, and aligned our lives behind the authority of God, we need to understand that making things right with other people is a critical next step.<\/strong> To miss this is to literally miss the essence of Christianity.<\/p>\n This weekend @ The Gathering<\/a> we\u2019ll be talking about how to restore ruptured relationships.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be talking about the cost of forgiveness, and the high <\/em>cost of unforgiveness.<\/strong> Not a day goes by that I don\u2019t hear about the pain and the agony caused by broken promises, adultery, lying, and cheating in marriage relationships.\u00a0 Almost not a week goes by that Paula and I don\u2019t deal with children who have been abandoned by their parents.\u00a0 Broken and ruptured relationships make life a living hell.<\/p>\n If you know someone who needs help in how to get back into their lives the people they\u2019ve wounded, or how to forgive the people who have wounded them, this weekend would be the perfect time to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my pet-peeves are people who call themselves Christians, and who believe that their faith is only about their personal relationship with God.\u00a0 Nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus made it very clear that our relationship with God, the health or lack thereof, is reflected in the relationships of the people around … Continue reading “This Weekend @ The Gathering \u2013 When You Made Things Right With God, Did You Forget the Next Important Step That Makes the Whole Thing Work?”<\/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\/2355"}],"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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}