{"id":641,"date":"2007-10-07T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"715917631"},"modified":"2009-10-15T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:08:26","slug":"today-the-gathering-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering<\/a> we continued in our current series \u201c7 Lies of Organized Religion<\/a>,\u201d with installment #5 which says, \u201cAs long as you\u2019re sincere, all roads lead to God.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the major problems people have with Christianity is its exclusive claim, its truth-claim that Jesus Christ is indeed the way, the truth, and the life, as He claimed. People believe that this seems too narrow and contradictory.<\/p>\n

So in order to avoid facing the reality, we\u2019ve invented new realities which religion has embraced and expressed in sayings like, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really matter what you believe as long as you\u2019re sincere.\u201d Or, \u201cIf you go to church as much as you can, be as good as you can, you might have a decent shot at heaven.\u201d Or, \u201cIf your good outweighs your bad, you\u2019re in.\u201d Issues of eternity are way too important to be left up to these irrational, religious excuses to avoid the truth.<\/p>\n

Today we talked about the three reasons why what we believe really matters.<\/p>\n

1. There\u2019s such a thing as truth and non-truth.<\/span> This introduces us to the law of non-contradiction. A thing can\u2019t be true and not true at the same time. If you ask a woman, \u201cAre you pregnant?\u201d she\u2019s either pregnant or not. You either are or you\u2019re not. You\u2019re not just a little bit.<\/p>\n

2. There\u2019s such a thing as trust and non-trust<\/span>. Trust is built on truth. If there is no truth, then there can be no trust.<\/p>\n

3. There\u2019s such a thing as love and non-love<\/span>. A thing is either loving or non-loving. Love can\u2019t exist where there is no trust. And trust can\u2019t exist where there is no truth. So you can understand why truth is so important to building an inner life.<\/p>\n

4. Maybe the most important, there is such a thing as eternal life and judgment.<\/span> No matter how much we try to avoid it, all of us face the end of our lives. At the end of a long road, there is a debt that we all have to pay; the debt of dying a physical death. And yet even Jesus said that the gift of God is eternal life.<\/p>\n

We also dealt with the 4 Freedoms<\/span>: the freedom from the fear of death, judgment, being abandoned, and being forgotten.<\/p>\n

This is an exciting series. If you\u2019ve missed any of the 4 parts leading up to today, check out the podcast<\/a> and get caught up. Next week will be an exciting week as we turn to Lie # 6. You won\u2019t want to miss it.<\/p>\n

Invite a friend to come and be a part!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today @ The Gathering we continued in our current series \u201c7 Lies of Organized Religion,\u201d with installment #5 which says, \u201cAs long as you\u2019re sincere, all roads lead to God.\u201d One of the major problems people have with Christianity is its exclusive claim, its truth-claim that Jesus Christ is indeed the way, the truth, and … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – October 7”<\/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\/641"}],"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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}