{"id":23702,"date":"2013-07-05T01:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T04:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23702"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:19:04","slug":"what-is-a-missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/what-is-a-missionary\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Missionary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mafblog.com\/missionary-2\/whats-a-missionary\">Mission Aviation Fellowship<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, my daughter came across the word <em>missionary<\/em> in a biography we were reading together. She asked, \u201c<strong>What is a <em>missionary<\/em><\/strong>?\u201d I giggled with surprise. \u201cWell, Honey, it\u2019s <strong>a person who absolutely loves Jesus and wants others to love Him too<\/strong>. So, <strong>they choose to live their lives in such a way that helps others to see and know Him<\/strong>, by loving them and teaching them who Jesus is.\u201d A few minutes later, she <!--more-->gasped with bright eyes and a beaming smile, \u201cYou mean\u2026I am a missionary?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a great reminder! We don\u2019t have to be an adult with a well-thought-out ministry plan, years of experience, or even move to another country to be a missionary. Having a heart convinced of His love for us and for others is what is required\u2026and God will do the rest!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can be a missionary <em>wherever you are<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mission Aviation Fellowship: Recently, my daughter came across the word missionary in a biography we were reading together. She asked, \u201cWhat is a missionary?\u201d I giggled with surprise. \u201cWell, Honey, it\u2019s a person who absolutely loves Jesus and wants others to love Him too. So, they choose to live their lives in such a way that helps others [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2,145,22,171],"class_list":["post-23702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary-aviation","tag-christian","tag-military","tag-mission-aviation-fellowship","tag-missionary","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702","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=23702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}