{"id":41,"date":"2009-09-25T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-10-05T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:16:39","slug":"this-weekend-the-gathering-why-can%e2%80%99t-i-make-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/this-weekend-the-gathering-why-can%e2%80%99t-i-make-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend @ The Gathering: Why Can\u2019t I Make You Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bighurryicon\"How many times have I heard people say that: \u201cWhy can\u2019t I make you happy?\u201d or \u201cI can\u2019t make you happy,\u201d or \u201cI can\u2019t make anyone happy,\u201d or \u201cEveryone\u2019s upset with me,\u201d or \u201cIt seems like I can never figure out how to please the people in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

This weekend @ The Gathering<\/a> we\u2019re going to be talking about people-pleasing and how that devastates our life.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons why really smart people self-destruct is they lack boundaries, margin, and a sense of identity in their life.\u00a0 It\u2019s \u201cwhoever you want me to be,\u201d and \u201cwhatever you want me to do,\u201d and with that mentality that\u2019s driven by fear and self-doubt, we end up living someone else\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

You can even be a high-achiever and wake up one day and realize that the ladder you\u2019re climbing is leaning against the wrong wall. <\/strong>And what happens is, we self-destruct.<\/p>\n

So this weekend we\u2019re going to be talking about how to avoid doing really dumb things that will end up destroying your life.<\/p>\n

Maybe you know someone who is going through a time where they\u2019ve lost something.\u00a0 Maybe they have a sense of dissatisfaction in their marriage, their job, or maybe it\u2019s just them.\u00a0 This weekend will be a great time to bring them to The Gathering.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because it\u2019s a place where we specialize in God simple; not church complicated.<\/p>\n

The Gathering is a place where messy people come together to celebrate life as it can be; not how it has been.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it true that you need the love of other people when you deserve it the least?\u00a0 When we gather around the grace of God in Jesus Christ, really amazing things begin to happen.\u00a0 If you\u2019re trying to go it alone, if you\u2019re trying to figure out life without connecting to some other fellow travelers, you need to get up and come to one of our two services at 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM<\/strong> this weekend.\u00a0 It\u2019s a place that you can make the connections you\u2019ve been crying out for: not only a connection to God, but to other people, and a connection that\u2019s most critical – to yourself, to your own sense of self-worth and significance in the world around you.<\/p>\n

Gathering to worship God, whether it\u2019s at The Gathering or someplace else is a privilege that\u2019s been bought by the sacrifice of so many.<\/strong> Why not get out this weekend and celebrate this sacrifice.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been hurt by church, or life, or someone else, The Gathering is a safe place to come and begin the healing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How many times have I heard people say that: \u201cWhy can\u2019t I make you happy?\u201d or \u201cI can\u2019t make you happy,\u201d or \u201cI can\u2019t make anyone happy,\u201d or \u201cEveryone\u2019s upset with me,\u201d or \u201cIt seems like I can never figure out how to please the people in my life.\u201d This weekend @ The Gathering we\u2019re … Continue reading “This Weekend @ The Gathering: Why Can\u2019t I Make You Happy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/41"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}