{"id":392,"date":"2009-09-08T00:30:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T04:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2009-09-07T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T02:19:25","slug":"the-christian-impact-on-a-military-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/the-christian-impact-on-a-military-career\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Impact on a Military Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers&#8217; Christian Fellowship (OCF) highlights an interesting article from Col Al Shine (USA, Ret), describing what a Christian life should look like in the military.\u00a0 It should impact every part of your life and profession:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jesus is Lord&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will be reflected in your integrity.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will affect your attitude.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will be a source of strength and guidance.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will affect how you fight.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will add a dimension of ministry to your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The evangelism associated with\u00a0living a Christian life in the military <!--more-->is\u00a0not described in the coercive proselytizing fashion of which it is often accused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through chapels, OCF, and other forums, you will seek to carry out the Great Commission. All of us are called to be active parts of the Body of Christ, &#8220;prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have&#8230;. with gentleness and respect.&#8221; We are missionaries in the military with a message of hope and salvation to bring to the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original article was written in Command magazine in 2006; the adapted version can be read on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\/articles\/shine-words.php\">the OCF website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers&#8217; Christian Fellowship (OCF) highlights an interesting article from Col Al Shine (USA, Ret), describing what a Christian life should look like in the military.\u00a0 It should impact every part of your life and profession: &#8220;Jesus is Lord&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will be reflected in your integrity. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will affect your attitude. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;will be a source of strength and guidance. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4,70,2,81,10],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-churchandstate","tag-evangelism","tag-military","tag-ocf","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}