The Gathering Way is a vision for church from Dr. David Foster. He spoke for nearly 2 hr. recently to a group of key leaders and volunteers at The Gathering Nashville.
Perhaps you can use some of these ideas in your own church.
To that end, we recorded his presentation, and have edited it down to a “Cliff Notes” audio version, consisting of 12 recordings, each about 3-4 minutes long. You can listen to the first lesson by clicking here.
All 12 are freely available. All you need to do is sign up below, and we’ll send them.
In these recordings you’ll learn:
- The Vision for The Gathering
- Which is more important? Respect or Revolution?
- 4 Core Values of The Gathering - Truth, People, Hope, Joy
- 3 Chronic Diseases of the American Church
- 3 Generations of Church-goers: Go To, Go Do, Go Be
- Agorophobia - why are we scared of atheists?
- Xenophobia - why are we scared of homosexuals and non-believers?
- Mission Myopia - why don’t we know who our customers are?
- What is the Wall-less, wire-less worn-out world? How does it affect “doing church”?
- Can any business survive being open 1 day per week?
- The Gathering Philosophy of Ministry - K I S S S
- Why Bill Gates doesn’t attend church. Why Christians are offended.
- Does God ever bless stupidity?
- 3 Non-negotiables of The Gathering: Jesus, Quality, Applause
- How to maintain a volunteer’s fire (without burning out)
- The Dos and Dont’s, Truths and Misconceptions of Leadership
- David’s thoughts on Barbecue, Passion, and Changed Lives
From the lessons:
“How We Grow - living things grow, growing things change, change creates friction, friction creates fear, fear creates dis-ease. Jesus always created dis-ease.”
“We give out of our lives to advance the Jesus agenda., to create solutions and systems. We’re not going to cuss and fuss about what’s wrong with the world, we’re going to be what’s right with it, to glorify God and advance the good, motivated by love and desire to be waymakers and a crazy, dangerous, uncivilized, risk-taking movement, whose mission is the fueling and funding of a global revolution aimed at the radical reclamation of the human heart, driven by a relentless, passionate pursuit of the Divine Scandal - namely, that every life matters to God. No other world view or ideology that can say that.”