{"id":2665,"date":"2010-08-14T05:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2010-08-14T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:30:52","slug":"tomorrow-the-gathering-we-begin-a-brand-new-fall-series-entitled-accept-no-mediocre-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/tomorrow-the-gathering-we-begin-a-brand-new-fall-series-entitled-accept-no-mediocre-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow @ The Gathering: We Begin a Brand New Fall Series Entitled “Accept No Mediocre Marriage”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I hate to be the one to say this, but by all measurements, even the most positive marriage in America is in trouble.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last weekend Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer who has ever lived, embarrassed himself at a tournament he has won seven times.\u00a0 Coming in dead last and shooting the worst tournament of his professional career, Tiger admitted he hadn\u2019t been practicing and preparing like he used to because now he needed to spend time with his children.\u00a0 And we all applaud that, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

But you know the back-story.\u00a0 Unfaithfulness in marriage, a toxic lifestyle, living in the shadows has cost Tiger more in emotional, relational, professional, and reputation capital than he\u2019ll ever earn in two lifetimes.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just Tiger.\u00a0 Look at the news headlines about the CEO of HP, by all measurements one of the most successful CEO\u2019s they ever had, got fired over sexual harassment, extramarital affairs and no telling what else was going on.<\/p>\n

I think I make my point.\u00a0\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be a high-profile professional athlete or business leader to convince us that when half the marriages in America fail, when 1 million children in America lose the presence of their father in their home, when 1.4 million children drop out of school before high school because they have no parental support at home, and when divorce costs the U.S. economy in excess of $50 billion, something has got to give.<\/p>\n

The other thing that is strange about this whole phenomenon, is if you listen to what\u2019s being said in the pulpits across America, very little is being directed toward marriage, parenting, or the family. Why is this?\u00a0 Maybe we\u2019re afraid to offend because there are so many people living in pain, we don\u2019t want to remind them of where they are.<\/p>\n

So what happens?\u00a0 We accept in our relationships what we tend to accept in our professional life – mediocrity.<\/strong> We just believe that\u2019s the way it has to be.\u00a0 Marriage is an outdated idea, an old-fashioned notion that doesn\u2019t hold up in the current stresses and strains of modern day life.<\/p>\n

I am here to tell you that is not true.\u00a0 Nothing can be further from the truth.\u00a0 That\u2019s why for the next ten weeks @ The Gathering<\/a> at both services, we will be dealing with the ten things they don\u2019t tell you before you say, \u201cI do.\u201d\u00a0 Yeah, it takes skill.\u00a0 It takes one set of skills to get married, it takes another set of skills to be married, and yet another whole set of skills to stay married in a healthy, energizing, productive way.<\/p>\n

And while we can\u2019t cover all of those skills, we\u2019re going to raise to the surface the most powerful principles when understood, learned, and applied, that can change your marriage from something that is mediocre and miserable, into something that is great and excellent.<\/p>\n

You can make marriage fun again<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can have a great relationship with your spouse that gets better and better as the years go by.\u00a0 If you join us on this ten-week journey, I guarantee you\u2019re going to find hope, direction, and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate to be the one to say this, but by all measurements, even the most positive marriage in America is in trouble. Last weekend Tiger Woods, arguably the greatest golfer who has ever lived, embarrassed himself at a tournament he has won seven times.\u00a0 Coming in dead last and shooting the worst tournament of … Continue reading “Tomorrow @ The Gathering: We Begin a Brand New Fall Series Entitled “Accept No Mediocre Marriage””<\/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\/2665"}],"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=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}