{"id":5329,"date":"2012-02-23T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2012-02-23T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T19:07:00","slug":"rg2g-055-ten-good-reasons-you-need-a-great-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/rg2g-055-ten-good-reasons-you-need-a-great-church\/","title":{"rendered":"RG2G 055 Ten Good Reasons You Need a Great Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Something I hear constantly when I’m around people are war stories about how they’ve been burnt by the church.\u00a0 If you are not careful, you’ll end up thinking that just because a lot of churches are messed up, all churches are messed up.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know good people who have opted out of attending church or being a part of a church<\/strong> for a period of time just to be able to get their sense of self back together.\u00a0 And I respect that.\u00a0 But I, for one, am committed to the church as taught in the Scriptures; that it is a dynamic movement of God’s redeeming grace.\u00a0 It is a collection of messy people who have found not only their joy, but their peace and their wholeness in a loving relationship with Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

So today I talk about the 10 good reasons why you need a great church.\u00a0 Remember that just because there are a lot of broken churches doesn’t mean the idea<\/em> of church is a bad one.\u00a0<\/strong> We don’t stop eating just because there are some bad restaurants.\u00a0 We don’t stop attending ballgames just because the teams don’t play well.\u00a0 I urge you to listen.\u00a0 Talk these ten ideas over with your family, co-workers, and small groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Out there somewhere is a dynamic, growing, vital, vibrant gathering of people seeking to know God, love God, and live the life for which they were created.\u00a0 You can be a\u00a0 part of that.\u00a0 You can be a\u00a0 part of something big, something that makes a difference.\u00a0 Or you can just be mad, sad, cynical, and stay home.\u00a0 Your choice.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something I hear constantly when I’m around people are war stories about how they’ve been burnt by the church.\u00a0 If you are not careful, you’ll end up thinking that just because a lot of churches are messed up, all churches are messed up. I know good people who have opted out of attending church or … Continue reading “RG2G 055 Ten Good Reasons You Need a Great Church”<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329"}],"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=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}