{"id":289,"date":"2006-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/04\/fearless-in-nyc.html"},"modified":"2006-04-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T12:00:00","slug":"fearless-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/04\/fearless-in-nyc.html","title":{"rendered":"Fearless in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s much to tell about last weekend’s “Being Fearless” conference, organized by the increasingly influential Omega Institute <\/a>(be sure to get a copy of the summer program catalog here<\/a>). Within twenty hours, I saw Malcolm Gladwell, Caroline Myss, Wayne Dyer, James Van Praagh, Rev. Dr. James Forbes, and Elizabeth Lesser\u2014with about 1600 other attendees. I missed the whole second day and I’m dying to know what comedian\/telethoner Jerry Lewis said (anyone?).<\/p>\n

Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., pastor of New York City’s Riverside Church, gave a rousing sermon in which he listed his strategies on how to overcome “the spirit of fear” that sometimes keeps us from being who we want to be. They include: <\/p>\n

—Join a group:<\/strong> “You can’t transform the world by yourself.”<\/p>\n

—Find the right project:<\/strong> “When you keep busy praising God, you don’t have time to die.” <\/p>\n

—Find the right comfort\/commitment ratio:<\/strong> “You must take care of yourself before you heal the world.”<\/p>\n

—Stay open to receiving God’s love:<\/strong> “Perfect love casts out fear, and God loves you beyond consideration.”<\/p>\n

—Find occasions for unrestrained joy:<\/strong> “You can’t stay frowned-up this way and bring in new order!”<\/p>\n

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