{"id":146,"date":"2008-09-10T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:40:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T05:40:15","slug":"beyond-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">I recently was given two advance copies of Mark Batterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book, <strong>Wild Goose Chaise: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God<\/strong>.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>(It is now out in stores and is a good read!)<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I finished reading it on vacation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 when I was mostly sleeping, eating, reading, relaxing, and reflecting on my life.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In the book, Mark made a comment that caught my attention (actually, he made lots of them, that caught my attention)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153too many of us live by default rather than by design.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">Take a moment or two to read that again and think about it.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">Which way are you living?<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>By default \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just taking life as it comes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not making plans or using the gifts God has given you.<span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Or, by design \u00e2\u20ac\u201c living out of the gifts God has given you and making an impact in the world.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">One thing I know\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we are each one created (designed by God) with different interests, gifts, abilities and when we use them, we are living into the designs God has for us.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>And when we do that, life can be pretty exciting and fulfilling.<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">What would your life look like if you were living it by design?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was given two advance copies of Mark Batterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book, Wild Goose Chaise: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God.\u00c2\u00a0 (It is now out in stores and is a good read!)\u00c2\u00a0 I finished reading it on vacation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 when I was mostly sleeping, eating, reading, relaxing, and reflecting on my life.\u00c2\u00a0 In the book, Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-readings","category-missional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}