{"id":4999,"date":"2011-10-10T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-10-10T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:21:18","slug":"what-are-you-into-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/what-are-you-into-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Into And Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Every once in awhile I hear someone ask this question, “What are you into?” or “What do you do?” or “What do you do for a living?”\u00a0 All of these are probing questions with the intent of finding out who we are and how we fit int the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In this series, “Leave No Doubt,” we’re talking about the 6 things worth standing up for.\u00a0 We want people to remember us for something specific and meaningful,<\/strong> right? So we want them to know where we stood, what we believed, and not only what we did, but what made us tick, and why we did it.\u00a0 This is a very timely topic, given the fact that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple just died at age 56.\u00a0 One of the most memorable things he said was at a Stanford commencement speech in 2005.\u00a0 “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the years I’ve seen too many people try to live their life by someone else’s standards or values.\u00a0 As a follower of Jesus Christ, it’s important that I understand why I do what I do<\/strong>, that I do indeed live before an audience of One, but I also serve in a world full of needs and people reaching out for help.\u00a0 So how do you become who you are and at the same time make sure that that is a person who does things that matter and can leave a meaningful legacy?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, we talked about our three imperatives.\u00a0 They go something like this: Because of who I am and whose I am, I – not you, my wife, my children, the government – determine what I must do.\u00a0 This is what it means to be a follower of Christ.\u00a0 To let that relationship so define my identity and my intentionality that people know why I do what I do.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The next question is what do you do?\u00a0 We talked about seven different things that could describe what we do and what we’re into; what we’re for rather than what we’re against.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is short.\u00a0 You don’t need certainty.\u00a0 You don’t need clarity, but you do need the confidence of who you are and that that will always be enough<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every once in awhile I hear someone ask this question, “What are you into?” or “What do you do?” or “What do you do for a living?”\u00a0 All of these are probing questions with the intent of finding out who we are and how we fit int the world. In this series, “Leave No Doubt,” … Continue reading “What Are You Into And Why?”<\/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\/4999"}],"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=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}