{"id":479,"date":"2012-04-04T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2012-04-04T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:22:01","slug":"i-loved-dr-david-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/i-loved-dr-david-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"I loved Dr. David Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/johnragsdaleblog.com\/2012\/04\/04\/i-loved-dr-david-foster\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/johnragsdaleblog.com\/2012\/04\/04\/i-loved-dr-david-foster\/<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegatheringnashville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/david_h_foster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nmy brother, Joshua called me several years ago<br \/>\nwhile my family and i were still living in austin<br \/>\ni can still hear the excitement in his voice<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cJohn, you have got to meet Dr. David Foster<br \/>\nyou two will love each other\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>he began to tell me about the pastor of this church that he had just attended<br \/>\nhe shared Dr. Foster\u2019s sermon from that sunday<br \/>\nand then the next sunday<br \/>\nand the next<br \/>\ni would get a call every week with a sermon update<br \/>\ni felt like i was attending Dr. Foster\u2019s church<\/p>\n<p>this was an answered prayer<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was sick &amp; tired of church<br \/>\nbut He loved Jesus<br \/>\nDr. Foster helped him reconcile the two<br \/>\nhis message of hope and acceptance helped my brother find his faith again<br \/>\nand i believe with all of my heart<br \/>\nhe is a huge reason that my little brother is in Heaven today<\/p>\n<p>after i moved to Nashville<br \/>\ni happened into the Cool Springs Starbucks<br \/>\n[what i later learned was his second office]<br \/>\nand there he was<br \/>\ni introduced myself<br \/>\nhe completely engaged me<br \/>\ni felt like i had known him for years<br \/>\nand even more impressive<br \/>\ni felt like he knew me<\/p>\n<p>a few days later i sent him a message<br \/>\nasking him if he would like to have coffee<br \/>\nhis reply was instant and to the point<br \/>\n<em>\u201csure. tomorrow. cool springs starbucks. 1pm\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>that meeting proved to be life-changing for me<br \/>\ni hung on every word<br \/>\ni took as many notes as possible<br \/>\nand those notes have saved me many years of misery in ministry<\/p>\n<p>when God called us to plant a church in Nashville<br \/>\nDr. Foster was one of the first people i called<br \/>\nwe began meeting more frequently<br \/>\nand each time i walked away a better man and minister<\/p>\n<p>when The Hills was still meeting on sunday nights<br \/>\nhe surprised us by showing up to one of our gatherings<br \/>\nit was one of those services<br \/>\nwhere everything that could go wrong went wrong<br \/>\ni did not want to be there<br \/>\nmuch less have someone like Dr. Foster in attendance<\/p>\n<p>after the service i emailed &amp; asked him what we could do better<br \/>\nhe replied\u00a0<em>\u201cit was great. i wouldn\u2019t change a thing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>later on he explained what he meant<br \/>\n<em>\u201cyou are a good guy<br \/>\nyou love people<br \/>\nyou love the gospel<br \/>\nkeep preaching like you are at a Billy Graham crusade every sunday<br \/>\nthe folks that attend will tell others<br \/>\ndown the road when those folks lives are falling apart<br \/>\nthey will come\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>he was right<br \/>\nand Joshua was too<br \/>\n<strong>i met Dr. David Foster<br \/>\n<\/strong>and<br \/>\n<strong>i loved Dr. David Foster<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nnow he and Joshua are together<br \/>\nand i can promise you<br \/>\nHeaven will be better because of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From http:\/\/johnragsdaleblog.com\/2012\/04\/04\/i-loved-dr-david-foster\/ my brother, Joshua called me several years ago while my family and i were still living in austin i can still hear the excitement in his voice \u201cJohn, you have got to meet Dr. David Foster you two (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/i-loved-dr-david-foster\/\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rememberingpastordave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}