{"id":1145,"date":"2009-11-13T00:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:28","slug":"military-religion-question-of-the-day-hensley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/military-religion-question-of-the-day-hensley\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Religion Question of the Day: Hensley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2009, al Jazeera <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/updated-more-al-jazeera-chaplain-video\/\">broadcast a show<\/a> that included film from a military chapel in Afghanistan.\u00a0 In the sermon, US Army Chaplain (LtCol) Gary Hensley told his congregation they had a responsibility to be a \u2018witness for Jesus.\u2019\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The special forces guys\u2014they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down.\u2026 Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That\u2019s what we do, that\u2019s our business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result, some organizations have\u00a0accused the Chaplain of violating <!--more-->military regulations and providing the adversaries of America with propaganda proving the US is on a &#8216;crusade.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Did Chaplain Hensley\u2019s sermon violate military rules against proselytizing, or any other military regulation or public policy?<\/p>\n<p>Many of the resources at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/religionandmilitary.htm\">Religion and the Military<\/a> may help you find an answer.\u00a0 Stay tuned for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/military-religion-question-answered-hensley\/\">Read the answer<\/a> to this Military Religion Question of the Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2009, al Jazeera broadcast a show that included film from a military chapel in Afghanistan.\u00a0 In the sermon, US Army Chaplain (LtCol) Gary Hensley told his congregation they had a responsibility to be a \u2018witness for Jesus.\u2019\u00a0 He said: The special forces guys\u2014they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[58,64,23,4,70,52,44,2,5218,7,11,17,10],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-jazeera","tag-bible","tag-churchandstate","tag-evangelism","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}