{"id":43268,"date":"2018-06-13T00:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43268"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:17:08","slug":"former-nfl-falcons-talk-to-soldiers-about-faith-one-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/former-nfl-falcons-talk-to-soldiers-about-faith-one-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Falcons Talk to Soldiers about Faith, One Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46131\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/brito.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/brito.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/brito-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/brito-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>MajGen Gary Brito, commanding general of the Army post at Fort Benning, recently hosted former NFL players Buddy Curry and Bobby Butler for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/276595\/former-atlanta-falcons-players-focus-teamwork-individual-faith-during-fort-benning-prayer-breakfast\">well-attended National Day of Prayer<\/a> event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[MajGen] Brito&#8230;introduced the speakers, citing them as \u201cleaders of character and faith.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the locker room, [Bobby Butler] was surrounded by quarterbacks Steve Bartkowski, Mike Moroski and June Jones, all of whom were strongly religious and proselytized the rookie Butler. Eventually Butler relented to the three and became more spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God for my time in Atlanta,\u201d said Butler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the team, Butler soon became the preacher: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Initially, he preached in enthusiasm, which his younger teammates greeted with the same wary skepticism he himself had expressed earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I kept the course, and then I learned how to be a witness,\u201d said Butler. \u201cYou don\u2019t always have to voice loud, just be a light, an example. And then the next thing you know, you\u2019ll get phone calls in the middle of the night, asking you to pray for them about situations. \u2026 The next day they\u2019ll still kick at you like you\u2019re a preacher in the locker room&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Curry also had a message to send about resilience:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou guys are training young men and women when they go through crisis. There is one way to go for true peace and true salvation, and a peace that passes all understanding.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their story is fascinating an well worth the read.<\/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>MajGen Gary Brito, commanding general of the Army post at Fort Benning, recently hosted former NFL players Buddy Curry and Bobby Butler for the well-attended National Day of Prayer event: [MajGen] Brito&#8230;introduced the speakers, citing them as \u201cleaders of character and faith.\u201d&#8230; In the locker room, [Bobby Butler] was surrounded by quarterbacks Steve Bartkowski, Mike Moroski and June Jones, all [&#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":[6592,6591,956,3563,6590,2,407,11,10,171],"class_list":["post-43268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bobby-butler","tag-buddy-curry","tag-football","tag-fort-benning","tag-gary-brito","tag-military","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268","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=43268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46132,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43268\/revisions\/46132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}