Mike Foster | Founder, Ethur
Mike Foster serves as the Creative Principal at Plain Joe Studios. The design firm specializes in strategic ideation, interactive media, and environmental design. In addition to his role on Plain Joe’s executive team, Mike leads an innovative non-profit organization called Ethur. Most recently, Mike helped launch People of the Second Chance, which is a scandalous movement of radical grace in life and leadership. He and his wife Jennifer live in Southern California with their two children.
- You cant experience happiness until you experience pain; then you can compare the difference.
- Broken is beautiful.
- Our scars are our strength.
- Rock bottom is a real place.
- We need radical grace in life and leadership.
- We think we are pretty good at being Christ followers, yet statistics and research would point otherwise.
- Over the years we’ve been so focused on growing our churches, building leaders, gaining influence and being innovative and failed at developing Christianity’s killer app: GRACE.
- Christianity doesn’t work very well without grace.
- Pain and disappointment is on the increase.
- People believe the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off… due to budget cuts.
- We live in a vulture culture that exposes gossip and failures.
- We have a judgment crisis.
- Grace is scarce.
- Where there is scarcity there is great opportunity.
- We have an incredible chance to rewrite the rules and people’s perceptions of Christianity.
- Grace can transform.
- Overthrow judgment and release love.
- We don’t drift into better behaviors, we have to make intentional choices.
We need to give a Second Chance
- We need to be fast to forgive people.
- We need to give our up our rights for revenge.
- Forgiveness isn’t being a doormat; it’s a courageous, brave thing.
- God created grace… it’s in constant motion.
- It comes in us and is supposed to come out of us.
- When we hold onto grace, we horde and become rancid.
- We all need grace.
We need to chase the prodigals.
- We have too many people standing on the sidelines because of a past failure.
- We need to remind them that their story doesn’t end in the valley.
- We have a choice, we can be a part of the judgment problem or the grace solution. We can’t be both.
- Choose wisely.
Let’s be people of the Second Chance.
