{"id":3347,"date":"2010-11-07T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2010-11-01T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:36:24","slug":"yea-god-you%e2%80%99re-a-creative-genius-with-mud-today-the-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/yea-god-you%e2%80%99re-a-creative-genius-with-mud-today-the-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Yea God; You\u2019re a Creative Genius With Mud: Today @ The Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Today @ The Gathering<\/a> we continued our current series with installment number two, \u201cYea God; You\u2019re a Creative Genius With Mud.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I attempted to do was to simply, logically walk through several steps that we need to understand, comprehend, and embrace, if we\u2019re going to think about God, not just logically, but with wisdom.<\/p>\n

There are seven steps starting with, there is something rather than nothing.\u00a0 Have you ever thought about just looking around you and realizing the order and majesty, and yet in stark contrast to that, the ugly and distorted?<\/strong> How can these two radical ideas exist in the same ecosystem?\u00a0 On the one hand, this is a good world, and on the other hand, something has gone desperately wrong.<\/p>\n

One of the issues that we dealt with today, was the nature of man.\u00a0 Are we just simply animals who have evolved up to a higher form, that our minds and hearts are just chemical responses to our bodily functions? Or is there something more to us?\u00a0 Were we created by God like the rest of creation and yet very, very different?\u00a0 What is that difference?\u00a0 What has gone wrong as we try to live out the uniqueness of man on the planet?\u00a0 If we are created in the image of God, why are we so harmful and hurtful to the planet our Creator has given us for our survival?\u00a0 We\u00a0 addressed all these answers in the introduction of courageous dissent.<\/p>\n

One of the common misunderstandings about Christianity is that it calls people to conformity, to blindly obey their spiritual mentors, leaders, and teachers.\u00a0 And yet nothing could be further from the truth.\u00a0 Jesus Christ was not compliant, nor did He get along with the religious establishment. <\/strong>We\u2019ve tried to make Him a blond-haired, blue-eyed, limp-wristed, white guy who just tried to be nice.\u00a0 And yet it was Jesus, Himself who said He\u2019s come to not bring peace, but a sword.How can these two messages exist in the life of one person?<\/p>\n

But be careful before you dismiss Him.<\/strong> For 2000 years we\u2019ve been trying to get over Jesus, away from Jesus, and yet He still abides.\u00a0 Over one billion people on this planet follow Him as Lord and Master.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand why, this talk will give you a good introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering we continued our current series with installment number two, \u201cYea God; You\u2019re a Creative Genius With Mud.\u201d What I attempted to do was to simply, logically walk through several steps that we need to understand, comprehend, and embrace, if we\u2019re going to think about God, not just logically, but with wisdom. … Continue reading “Yea God; You\u2019re a Creative Genius With Mud: Today @ The Gathering”<\/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\/3347"}],"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=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}