{"id":718,"date":"2007-12-30T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T01:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=718"},"modified":"2009-10-16T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:43:17","slug":"today-the-gathering-december-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-december-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering &#8211; December 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ <a href=\"http:\/\/thegatheringnashville.com\/\">The Gathering<\/a> we introduced the new logo for The Gathering.  It\u2019s a logo that represents our philosophy of ministry in our 3 G-words; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Gather, Grow, and Give<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about the importance of each Christian committing him or herself to the mission of advancing the American church; not the institution, and not the denomination, or the set of doctrines that will divide, but a force, a redemptive movement made up of people filled with the love of Jesus Christ and freedom to dream how it might advance the good.<\/p>\n<p>This message described the brave, new, wall-less, wireless, worn-out world and how doing ministry in that world has radically changed, along with the multiple opportunities that it offers to do truly great things for God.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most insightful things presented this weekend was how to know whether or not you\u2019re growing. One of the biggest challenges for Christians is to not just simply be stuck or stagnant, but to be vital and growing in their faith.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about the four tests we can apply to tell whether or not we\u2019re growing spiritually.<br \/>\n1.    <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Are you growing together<\/span> with other believers in love?<br \/>\n2.    <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Are you growing<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">up<\/span> into Christ and understanding who He is in your life and in the world?<br \/>\n3.    <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Are you growing out<\/span> through ministry and service; are you being productive, and do you see the fruit of your activity because you\u2019re doing what you do best and contributing your part?<br \/>\n4.    <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Are you growing more <\/span>through conversion; are people\u2019s lives being changed and transformed?<\/p>\n<p>For more details that help explain the philosophy of The Gathering, sign on at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegatheringway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gathering Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ The Gathering we introduced the new logo for The Gathering. It\u2019s a logo that represents our philosophy of ministry in our 3 G-words; Gather, Grow, and Give. We talked about the importance of each Christian committing him or herself to the mission of advancing the American church; not the institution, and not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-december-30th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering &#8211; December 30th&#8221;<\/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\/718"}],"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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}