{"id":3038,"date":"2010-09-19T16:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2010-09-19T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:59:57","slug":"how-to-turn-a-dud-into-a-dude-today-the-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-turn-a-dud-into-a-dude-today-the-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn a Dud Into a Dude: Today @ The Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/anmm_smallicon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/>Today @ <a href=\"http:\/\/g3church.com\">The Gathering<\/a> we continued in our current series \u201cAccept No Mediocre Marriage\u201d by dealing with <strong>how you help your mate make the changes they need to make.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the neat things about today\u2019s talk was I interviewed my wife Paula for the first 10 minutes.\u00a0 She talked about our relationship, how we met, and how \u2013 through her willingness to take a stand \u2013 my life was changed through a spiritual conversion to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about the ways we make each other miserable trying to force changes in our lives by nagging, complaining, betraying a trust, all the normal things that seem to come all too naturally to us.<\/p>\n<p>We also talked about the insights, that<strong> we are agents of change<\/strong>; that we do have the capacity to bring out the very best in our mate.\u00a0 We are catalysts, not commanders.\u00a0 In marriage we do not have power, but we have something better: influence. <strong>We can inspire, and model the behavior we want to see<\/strong>.\u00a0 As a matter of fact we must model the behavior we want to see in every member of our family.\u00a0 We talked about how you get it done, how you make application, and how you can see real change and turn-around in your marriage relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ The Gathering we continued in our current series \u201cAccept No Mediocre Marriage\u201d by dealing with how you help your mate make the changes they need to make. One of the neat things about today\u2019s talk was I interviewed my wife Paula for the first 10 minutes.\u00a0 She talked about our relationship, how we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/how-to-turn-a-dud-into-a-dude-today-the-gathering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Turn a Dud Into a Dude: Today @ The Gathering&#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\/3038"}],"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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}