{"id":968,"date":"2009-11-15T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"1510751204"},"modified":"2009-11-15T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:55:20","slug":"today-the-gathering-jesus-doesn%e2%80%99t-work-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-jesus-doesn%e2%80%99t-work-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: Jesus Doesn\u2019t Work For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/TheyPromisedMeChocolate_green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" \/>We continued our present series \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate: The True Confessions of a Disappointed Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nothing is more disconcerting than being disappointed with God.<\/strong> And yet, how many people are?\u00a0 Even people who claim to be Christians don\u2019t seem to really be enjoying their life with God.\u00a0 Part of that stems from the assumptions that we\u2019ve been taught, the things we\u2019ve been promised, what I call the over-hyping of God.<\/p>\n<p>The truth of the matter is this: <strong>Jesus doesn\u2019t work for you.<\/strong> By that I mean He doesn\u2019t reorient the center of the world around you for your wellbeing.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t move to us.\u00a0 We move to Him.\u00a0 And as such, <strong>we need to understand that a life with God is on His terms, not our own.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today we talked about some of the misconceptions; the five best things God never said: things we\u2019ve been promised that God is never going to deliver on they simply aren\u2019t true and would be harmful if applied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you know someone who is living with disappointment in their relationship with God;<\/strong> that God feels distant and non-responsive, <em>this would be the talk to listen to<\/em>.\u00a0 You can either listen right here on my blog, or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/davidfosteratthegathering\">go to iTunes and subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continued our present series \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate: The True Confessions of a Disappointed Christian.\u201d Nothing is more disconcerting than being disappointed with God. And yet, how many people are?\u00a0 Even people who claim to be Christians don\u2019t seem to really be enjoying their life with God.\u00a0 Part of that stems from the assumptions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-jesus-doesn%e2%80%99t-work-for-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering: Jesus Doesn\u2019t Work For Me&#8221;<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}