{"id":144,"date":"2008-01-01T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:46:40","slug":"revisited-military-christian-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/revisited-military-christian-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisited: Military Christian Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChristianFighterPilot.com has published an ongoing\u00a0series of articles on the priorities of military Christians.\u00a0 As stated in the first article, the most-often cited Christian priorities\u00a0are God, family, and career.\u00a0 The God priority was addressed in the October article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the November article on the importance of family<\/a>, there have been two interesting and related news events.\u00a0 In one case, the Air Force Leadership published the recent\u00a0Airman\u2019s Roll Call<\/a>\u00a0and highlighted the importance of family:<\/p>\n

It’s [our families’] support that helps us perform our vital Air Force mission, and for this very reason, we must make the most of the time we have with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Historically, the Air Force has been the most “family friendly” of the services.\u00a0 It has repeatedly\u00a0shown that\u00a0it recognizes the importance of the Air Force member’s family to the accomplishment of the mission.\u00a0 As noted in the article on the family priority<\/a>, there is a spiritual reason for holding the family so dear.\u00a0 As the Air Force notes, however, valuing our families\u00a0is also a virtual military necessity.<\/p>\n

The second item of interest was the announcement of this year’s\u00a0Heisman winner<\/a>.\u00a0 Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was effusive in his thanks to God for his success, and the article notes that<\/p>\n

Football rates a mere fourth on his list of priorities behind God, family and academics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The young college sophomore displayed an unusual degree of maturity\u00a0and understanding of life’s bigger purposes.\u00a0 Much as Indianapolis Colts’ head coach Tony Dungy related in his book<\/a>,\u00a0Tebow realized that football wasn’t everything, and that his life needed to reflect what was truly important:<\/p>\n

[Football is]\u00a0a game that I love and you’ve got to remember that He gave me the ability and the opportunity to play and it can be gone at any moment…[In] football, in school, in living, I want people to…say, “Hey, there’s something different about this guy, and that’s because he has a relationship with Jesus Christ.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The pastor at his\u00a0Florida church noted Tebow’s\u00a0“postgame interviews and the ongoing Christian witness that’s quickly becoming his trademark.”<\/p>\n

There is a special place in the imagination of the American public for football players–especially quarterbacks.\u00a0 The same is true for members of the\u00a0military–especially fighter pilots.\u00a0 Just as their positions give football players unique platforms for Christ, so, too, do those of military Christians.\u00a0 Military Christians could probably learn a lesson from the life choices and boldness of\u00a0the young college sophomore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ChristianFighterPilot.com has published an ongoing\u00a0series of articles on the priorities of military Christians.\u00a0 As stated in the first article, the most-often cited Christian priorities\u00a0are God, family, and career.\u00a0 The God priority was addressed in the October article. Since the November article on the importance of family, there have been two interesting and related news events.\u00a0 In one case, the Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}