{"id":5090,"date":"2011-11-07T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2011-11-06T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T02:10:35","slug":"do-you-have-a-polyester-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/do-you-have-a-polyester-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have a Polyester Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’m reading Rodney Stark’s newest book, “The Triumph of Christianity.”\u00a0 I’ve enjoyed his point of view on history; none better than in his brand new book.<\/span><\/p>\n

In it, Stark tells that an over 40% of people on the planet today pledge some allegiance to Jesus; that Christianity is the most vital, vibrant, and growing faith on the planet.\u00a0 I stand amazed at that, particularly when you think about 2,000 years after the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, with all the hate, anguish, misunderstanding, and abuse that Jesus has suffered, He is still relevant, still here, and still changing lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a ramp-up to the Christmas season, I decided to do a 7-part series entitled, “Polyester Jesus.”\u00a0 The idea that like polyester, we try to make Jesus into some synthetic religion; something that’s easy to clean and care for.\u00a0 And yet Jesus is anything but easy, nice, sweet, and simple.\u00a0 He is alive, here, and dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

So in these weeks we’re going to be talking about the contrast between synthetic religion and authentic faith.\u00a0 Today we talked about that the real Jesus gives assurance.<\/strong>\u00a0 That’s the fundamental foundation.\u00a0 That’s where we start.\u00a0 We have assurance of His love, assurance of His acceptance, and assurance of a place in His new future.\u00a0 Yet all of life takes on a different view.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the talk today.\u00a0 Sit down with your family or your group of friends and ask, “Just how relevant is Jesus?”\u00a0 Do you understand the difference between synthetic faith and authentic faith?\u00a0 Identify the four absolute essentials of an authentic faith in Christ and make application in your own life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m reading Rodney Stark’s newest book, “The Triumph of Christianity.”\u00a0 I’ve enjoyed his point of view on history; none better than in his brand new book. In it, Stark tells that an over 40% of people on the planet today pledge some allegiance to Jesus; that Christianity is the most vital, vibrant, and growing faith … Continue reading “Do You Have a Polyester Jesus?”<\/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\/5090"}],"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=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}