{"id":35084,"date":"2016-05-13T00:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35084"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:37:35","slug":"christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-shares-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-shares-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Fighter Pilot, Astronaut Shares the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired USAF Col <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/dutton-jp.html\">James Dutton<\/a> was an F-15 fighter pilot and pilot of STS-131 Discovery <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/02\/08\/usafa-grads-fighter-pilots-christians-pilot-shuttle\/\">in 2010<\/a>. He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/missions\/2016\/05\/02\/more-exciting-than-flying-into-space-sharing-the-gospel\">now joined the board<\/a> of directors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithcomesbyhearing.com\/about\/leadership\">Faith Comes by Hearing<\/a>, a group whose goal is to create audio Bibles for the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The greatest experience in my life has not been flying in space,\u201d he says. \u201cIt&#8217;s when I came to faith in Jesus Christ&#8230;What I want to do with the second half of my life is help other people to understand who he is and to grapple with the truths of the Bible&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Col Dutton spoke at an Eglin AFB <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2012\/03\/14\/christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-addresses-eglin-prayer-breakfast\/\">prayer breakfast in 2012<\/a> and <!--more-->at the US Air Force Academy <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/05\/17\/christian-fighter-pilot-astronaut-speaks-at-usafa\/\">in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FCBH has previously been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/03\/05\/more-than-500000-biblesticks-provided-to-us-troops\/\">discussed here<\/a>, as their audio Bibles have been extremely popular with US troops in combat.<\/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>Retired USAF Col James Dutton was an F-15 fighter pilot and pilot of STS-131 Discovery in 2010. 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