{"id":639,"date":"2008-10-12T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=639"},"modified":"2009-10-15T21:06:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:06:18","slug":"today-the-gathering-october-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-october-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – October 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering<\/a> we continued our new series entitled, \u201cMastering My Emotional Monsters\u201d <\/em>what to do when you don\u2019t feel the way you want to.\u00a0 During today\u2019s message, part two, we talked about \u201cWhat To Do When You Feel Lonely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During these kinds of uncertain times, both political and economic, we need each other more than ever.\u00a0 And yet the tendency to be isolated and stay home, to pull in and to close in and to try to protect yourself is more prominent than ever.\u00a0 It\u2019s the worst thing we can do.<\/p>\n

The key to our society and culture\u2019s future is to be able to build and maintain trusting relationships over time.\u00a0\u00a0 There are forces \u2013 evil forces among us that want to keep us apart, want to keep us isolated, living in apartments together, yet alone.<\/p>\n

Today we talked about the key to building the kind of networks, support, and community that are absolutely necessary, and always have been at the heart of God.<\/p>\n

We learned the 3-step cure for loneliness:
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You must start showing up.<\/span>
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You must inconvenience yourself.<\/span>
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You must identify what you want and then give it away.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering what the best thing you can do to get us through this crisis, the very best thing you can do is gather with other people seeking the face of God and learning His ways.\u00a0 Listen to today\u2019s message again and share it with your friends and family.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll find the courage to reach up to God and seek an authentic relationship based on faith through grace, and reach out to others in spite of the fear of rejection.<\/p>\n

This is an exciting series and you won\u2019t want to miss next week\u2019s message, \u201cWhat To Do When You Feel Betrayed.\u201d <\/span> If you know someone who can benefit from this series, just send them to iTunes to subscribe so they can have them downloaded straight to their iPod or computer .\u00a0 At iTunes they can get a video or an audio version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering we continued our new series entitled, \u201cMastering My Emotional Monsters\u201d what to do when you don\u2019t feel the way you want to.\u00a0 During today\u2019s message, part two, we talked about \u201cWhat To Do When You Feel Lonely.\u201d During these kinds of uncertain times, both political and economic, we need each other … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – October 12”<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}