{"id":31428,"date":"2015-04-30T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31428"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:25:29","slug":"russell-moore-on-proactive-american-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/russell-moore-on-proactive-american-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Moore on Proactive American Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In an American system of government, religious liberty is everyone\u2019s problem because the state is accountable to the people, who are, ultimately, the governing authorities. <strong>A Christian, then, who doesn\u2019t care about working for religious liberty is a Christian who is not only wishing to be persecuted, and to consign others to persecution, but is also a Christian who wishes to be, by his silence, a persecutor of others<\/strong>. This is contrary to the way of Christ (1 Pet. 2:12-17).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2015\/04\/20\/religious-liberty-is-not-freedom-from-ridicule\/\">Read more<\/a>.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/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>In an American system of government, religious liberty is everyone\u2019s problem because the state is accountable to the people, who are, ultimately, the governing authorities. A Christian, then, who doesn\u2019t care about working for religious liberty is a Christian who is not only wishing to be persecuted, and to consign others to persecution, but is also a Christian who wishes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[96,82,17,10,171,3294],"class_list":["post-31428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-russell-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31428","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=31428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}