{"id":29144,"date":"2014-05-20T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29144"},"modified":"2016-11-25T22:54:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:54:54","slug":"navy-seals-marcus-luttrell-bill-wagasy-talk-faith-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/navy-seals-marcus-luttrell-bill-wagasy-talk-faith-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell, Bill Wagasy Talk Faith, Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell &#8212; best known for the book and movie <em>Lone Survivor<\/em> &#8212; and Bill Wagasy recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriaadvocate.com\/news\/2014\/may\/10\/marcus_luttrell_jp_041114_239408\/\">spoke to a group of Texas high school students<\/a> on leadership, character, and faith in God.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Billy and I are kind of cut from the same cloth, if you will,&#8221; Luttrell said, mentioning the students should pay attention to Wagasy&#8217;s advice. &#8220;We started up together, came up together, deployed into combat together&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Between Wagasy&#8217;s talks on honor, developing character, brotherhood, fearing God and developing intellect, the students <!--more-->broke into small groups and prepared mini-projects to present at the close of the seminar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One student made a comment that should give encouragement to Christian men and women in the US military [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Butch Warren, 18&#8230;said he enjoyed the faith undertones of the day, mentioning <strong>he was encouraged to see military officials speak openly about faith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to see. Most people in the military are Christian, and that&#8217;s a lot of what Christianity is about is being a part of the brotherhood. And that&#8217;s what the military is about as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When aspiring men and women of faith see successful military leaders speak openly and confidently of their military service and their Christianity, they are inspired to do the same.\u00a0 <em>That&#8217;s<\/em> how you encourage tomorrow&#8217;s leaders to integrate their faith throughout their life &#8212; and their profession &#8212; to serve God and country.<\/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>Former US Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell &#8212; best known for the book and movie Lone Survivor &#8212; and Bill Wagasy recently spoke to a group of Texas high school students on leadership, character, and faith in God. &#8220;Billy and I are kind of cut from the same cloth, if you will,&#8221; Luttrell said, mentioning the students should pay attention to [&#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":[4764,96,4765,4763,2,2074,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-29144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bill-wagasy","tag-christian","tag-lone-survivor","tag-marcus-luttrell","tag-military","tag-navy-seal","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29144","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=29144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}