{"id":19887,"date":"2012-10-15T02:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19887"},"modified":"2012-10-15T02:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:09:06","slug":"huckabee-urges-christians-to-engage-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/huckabee-urges-christians-to-engage-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee Urges Christians to Engage Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee addressed a banquet for the non-profit Ten Good Men this weekend, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/huckabee-urges-christians-to-come-out-in-the-public-square-83243\/\">urged Christians to get involved<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Huckabee [said] it is believers&#8217; responsibility to get more involved in civic life, give a bold declaration of the life of the Gospel, and not live as if they were &#8220;recruited by the Secret Service.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I think a lot of Christian <!--more-->people tend to think they need to disassociate themselves from cultural pillars. I think it&#8217;s the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christians in this country could be the most important source for good in America if they would execute their basic civic responsibilities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a continuation of Huckabee&#8217;s theme from 2010 that <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/huckabee-engage-the-fighter-pilot-culture\/\">Christians need to be &#8220;salt&#8221; and engage the culture<\/a>, not abandon it.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s right, of course.\u00a0 Christians need to live out loud, not cower behind drawn curtains &#8212; no matter what profession they&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee addressed a banquet for the non-profit Ten Good Men this weekend, and he urged Christians to get involved: Huckabee [said] it is believers&#8217; responsibility to get more involved in civic life, give a bold declaration of the life of the Gospel, and not live as if they were &#8220;recruited by the Secret [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,4,267,2,17,10,3636],"class_list":["post-19887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-churchandstate","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-ten-good-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887","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=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}