{"id":5441,"date":"2012-03-05T23:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isimplifyva.com\/www.davidfoster.tv\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-03-05T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:15:50","slug":"what-do-you-do-after-dumb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/what-do-you-do-after-dumb-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do after dumb?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s one thing to suffer at the hands of those who are careless and reckless.\u00a0 It\u2019s another thing to bear self-inflicted wounds.\u00a0 What do you do when you\u2019re surrounded with people who are suffering or going through difficult times as a result of their own behaviors?\u00a0 How do you extend grace to them?\u00a0 Where does the gospel make sense when you are extending it to people who are abusing it?<\/p>\n

There are so many things we don\u2019t talk about in church; especially about the things that have to do with our own misbehavior.\u00a0\u00a0How does God deal with us when we are not just dumb, but downright defiant?<\/strong>\u00a0What do the Scriptures teach us?\u00a0 Is there hope for people like us who know better, but don\u2019t do better?<\/p>\n

Yesterday we talked about\u00a0God\u2019s love and the difference between His faithful love and cheap grace<\/strong>.\u00a0 The fact that God does treat people differently, he doesn\u2019t love us all the same; there is a difference between His covenant love and His offered love.\u00a0\u00a0 Find out the difference and make application in your life, your family and the life of your church.\u00a0 Use it to stimulate conversation.\u00a0 Let me know if you think I am off base, or if you think I am right on target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s one thing to suffer at the hands of those who are careless and reckless.\u00a0 It\u2019s another thing to bear self-inflicted wounds.\u00a0 What do you do when you\u2019re surrounded with people who are suffering or going through difficult times as a result of their own behaviors?\u00a0 How do you extend grace to them?\u00a0 Where does … Continue reading “What do you do after dumb?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}