{"id":33529,"date":"2015-09-04T00:25:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T03:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33529"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:44:13","slug":"paris-train-heroes-motivated-by-christian-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/paris-train-heroes-motivated-by-christian-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Train Heroes Motivated by Christian Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within hours of three Americans thwarting a train-based terror attack in Europe, a few people quietly noted the three friends had been classmates at California&#8217;s Freedom Christian School. While the three themselves have not been particularly vocal about their faith, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article31991493.html\">few<\/a> articles have <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.godreports.com\/2015\/08\/three-american-heroes-on-train-are-strong-christians\/\">now been published<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelherald.com\/articles\/57332\/20150824\/families-of-three-americans-who-stopped-french-train-attack-credit-christian-faith-gods-providential-will-for-heroic-act.htm\">attribute<\/a> their courage and motivation to their Christianity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On August 21st, Airman First Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guard member Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler were en route from Brussels to Paris on a high-speed train&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>El Khazzani&#8230;was overwhelmed by the three young Americans and a Briton, 62-year-old businessman Chris Norman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In what may seem a backwards <!--more-->way to some people, Sadler&#8217;s father, a Baptist preacher, believed it was God&#8217;s divine intervention that placed them <em>there<\/em>, in harm&#8217;s way, so to speak:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pastor Anthony Sadler&#8230;told reporters that he believes his son and his friends were used by God to disrupt what could have been an awful tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe God\u2019s providential will worked its way out,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just thankful they were there and got things done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t just sit there. They &#8220;got things done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amen to that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/29\/w-scott-lamb-3-american-heroes-paris-motivated-the\/\">the Washington Times<\/a>.<\/span><\/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>Within hours of three Americans thwarting a train-based terror attack in Europe, a few people quietly noted the three friends had been classmates at California&#8217;s Freedom Christian School. While the three themselves have not been particularly vocal about their faith, a few articles have now been published that attribute their courage and motivation to their Christianity: On August 21st, Airman [&#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":[5310,5311,5313,96,5312,5308,2,5306,10,5309,3648,5307],"class_list":["post-33529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-alek-skarlatos","tag-anthony-sadler","tag-chris-norman","tag-christian","tag-el-khazzani","tag-freedom-christian-school","tag-military","tag-paris","tag-religion","tag-spencer-stone","tag-terrorist-attack","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529","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=33529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}