{"id":807,"date":"2009-10-24T03:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=807"},"modified":"2009-10-23T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T22:35:29","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-disappointed-with-magic-johnson-but-not-isaiah-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/i%e2%80%99m-disappointed-with-magic-johnson-but-not-isaiah-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Disappointed With Magic Johnson, But Not Isaiah Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>\"\"As you may have heard, Magic Johnson released a new book last week.\u00a0 And in it he decided to take on, what appeared to the world as one of his best friends, Isaiah Thomas.<\/p>\n

He accused Thomas of spreading rumors that Magic was gay; particularly when the news came out that he\u2019d been infected by the AIDS virus.\u00a0 Then he went on to talk about how no one liked Thomas, and no one wanted him on the Dream Team, and other kinds of slur and accusations against Isaiah.<\/p>\n

Here is the point.\u00a0 I am not sure any of us found out anything new about Isaiah Thomas that wasn\u2019t already known.\u00a0 While a brilliant player, and maybe even a good person, Isaiah has a reputation for being difficult.\u00a0 A lot of high-performers do.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the point.\u00a0 Magic Johnson has had an off-the-charts likeability.\u00a0 His big smile brings you in.\u00a0 Even when he revealed he was infected with HIV virus many years ago, the suspected scandal didn\u2019t follow; in part because of his open, positive demeanor.<\/p>\n

But now we\u2019ve been introduced to a new Magic Johnson; someone who holds grudges, vindictive, mean, or at the very best, just in need of selling books.\u00a0 And I\u2019m very disappointed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the nature of life, isn\u2019t it.\u00a0 Our heroes disappoint us.\u00a0 They are the \u201cthey\u201d that we somehow put up on a pedestal thinking they\u2019ll never make a mistake; never miss-step, or miss-speak.\u00a0 And when they do we are devastated.<\/p>\n

It reminds me that I\u2019m called to love people, help people, serve people, lift them, inspire them, forgive them, help redeem them, and reclaim them.\u00a0 But to worship them, no matter how mild a form that may take, is to set myself up for major disappointment.<\/p>\n

So as we begin a brand new series tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about the ten most powerful disappointments<\/strong> that I have faced.\u00a0 Yes, I am a disappointed Christian; and I should be.\u00a0 And during this series we\u2019ll find out why.\u00a0 True confessions of a disappointed Christian is the series that maybe you\u2019ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ve been let down by the revelations this week of what\u2019s gone on at work or with a family member.\u00a0 Or maybe Magic Johnson, a hero to you, has let you down as well.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to get over it; you need to get beyond it.\u00a0 There is only one way and we\u2019ll talk about it in this brand new series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate: The True Confessions of a Disappointed Christian.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may have heard, Magic Johnson released a new book last week.\u00a0 And in it he decided to take on, what appeared to the world as one of his best friends, Isaiah Thomas. He accused Thomas of spreading rumors that Magic was gay; particularly when the news came out that he\u2019d been infected by … Continue reading “I\u2019m Disappointed With Magic Johnson, But Not Isaiah Thomas”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}