{"id":150,"date":"2008-01-10T22:36:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T05:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:37:17","slug":"navy-commander-heeds-gods-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/navy-commander-heeds-gods-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Commander &#8220;heeds God&#8217;s call&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baptistpress.org\/BPnews.asp?ID=27161\">article<\/a> chronicles Navy Commander Rich McDaniel and his family while he is deployed.\u00a0 Some interesting quotes:<\/p>\n<p>On their family&#8217;s role in the Navy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Together and yet so often apart, the McDaniels believe their family unit has been called to a peculiar mission in life &#8212; as missionaries to the Navy community, serving God and country in peacetime and war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On finding a church as a military member&#8211;and balancing the God and family priorities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In some churches&#8230;the focus tends to be on &#8220;How can you serve others and how can you serve in the church?&#8221; While he endorses that&#8230;it can be heartbreaking to know he has only a few days with his wife after one to three months at sea and she feels duty-bound to stay in the nursery during Sunday morning worship because it&#8217;s her usual ministry at the church&#8230;People don&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s so important for her to be [with]\u00a0her husband [when he] happens to be home with little to no notice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article chronicles Navy Commander Rich McDaniel and his family while he is deployed.\u00a0 Some interesting quotes: On their family&#8217;s role in the Navy: Together and yet so often apart, the McDaniels believe their family unit has been called to a peculiar mission in life &#8212; as missionaries to the Navy community, serving God and country in peacetime and [&#8230;]<\/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":[2,10],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}