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There are a lot of problems that face our world.\u00a0 We see them reflected in the eyes of the people we meet every day.\u00a0 And because there are so many overwhelming problems, we are at times, left with the feeling that there is nothing we can do.<\/p>\n
I was in my men\u2019s group the other day and the question was asked, \u201cWhat are we going to do about this?\u201d And it stayed with me and haunted me since then.\u00a0 And so here is my answer.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t change everything, attack every problem.\u00a0 As a matter of fact there is probably no problem that I can solve.\u00a0 But I can focus my passion on a couple of problems that I know I can do something about. So if you don\u2019t know anything else about me and my commitments, know this: that for the rest of my life as God gives me the ability, I\u2019m going to own two problems.<\/strong> One, the problem of the American church and her inability to reach out and make a difference. <\/strong>I care about this.\u00a0 I believe in the church.\u00a0 I am a follower of Jesus.\u00a0 And while the church isn\u2019t perfect, it is created in the heart of God and owns a special place in His affection.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, Jesus said that He would build His church.\u00a0 And what is a church?\u00a0 It is a gathering of messed up people who have found that the grace of God and the love of God has loved them not only back to eternal life, but to the life here and now.\u00a0 And so I own that problem, creating a church for people who don\u2019t want to go to church because they\u2019ve been to church. <\/strong><\/em>And that\u2019s why our mantra at The Gathering Nashville<\/a> is that we specialize in God simple, not church complicated. The second problem that I own is the miserable and deteriorating state of marriage in America.<\/strong> I firmly believe that the one best thing we can do to turn our country around is to raise the value of marriage, and teach and mentor people not just how to get married, but how to be married and stay married over time.\u00a0 That would mean that we would have great marriages.\u00a0 We know that the economy would be stimulated, that great kids would be raised, families would be happier.\u00a0 And the greater families we have, the greater society we would have.\u00a0 And the greater society we have, the greater America we will have. So for me, the church and marriage are my two problems. <\/strong> They are the issues over which I have a sustainable passion.\u00a0 I know they are dear to the heart of God, for He created them both.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, they\u2019re the only two institutions that He did create.<\/p>\n So the question to you is, \u201cWhat are your problems?\u201d<\/strong> What two problems will you own, embrace, and hold yourself responsible for making a difference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are a lot of problems that face our world.\u00a0 We see them reflected in the eyes of the people we meet every day.\u00a0 And because there are so many overwhelming problems, we are at times, left with the feeling that there is nothing we can do. I was in my men\u2019s group the other … Continue reading “Turning Problems Into Passions”<\/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":[12,14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128"}],"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=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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