{"id":7998,"date":"2010-11-09T00:35:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2010-11-08T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T06:04:07","slug":"a-christian-officers-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/a-christian-officers-toolbox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christian Officer&#8217;s Toolbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers&#8217; Christian Fellowship has an article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\/articles\/christian-officers-toolbox\/\">A Christian Officer&#8217;s Toolbox<\/a>,&#8221; which presents a variety of practical ways in which Christian military officers can integrate their faith and their profession.<\/p>\n<p>The list of suggested tools, written by US Navy LtCmdr Brian Haggerty, includes\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accountability<\/li>\n<li>Provide Alternate Reading Material<\/li>\n<li>Provide Alternate Activities<\/li>\n<li>Pray<\/li>\n<li>Be Ready<\/li>\n<li>Support, Host, or Lead a Bible Study<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer to be Your Unit&#8217;s Lay Leader<\/li>\n<li>Take a Missionary Trip<\/li>\n<li>Participate in Your Church or Chapel Community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these suggestions have been covered in more detail in other discussions about living a life of faith in the military, such as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/bookann.htm\">Christian Fighter Pilot is not an Oxymoron<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, the OCF article notes the importance of knowing what is and is not permitted, rather than acting on assumption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We cannot allow ourselves to be defeated by perceptions that Christian activities will not be tolerated in the military!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\/articles\/christian-officers-toolbox\/\">short article<\/a> is worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers&#8217; Christian Fellowship has an article entitled &#8220;A Christian Officer&#8217;s Toolbox,&#8221; which presents a variety of practical ways in which Christian military officers can integrate their faith and their profession. The list of suggested tools, written by US Navy LtCmdr Brian Haggerty, includes\u00a0<\/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":[1147,38,2,81,11,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-7998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-brian-haggerty","tag-chapel","tag-military","tag-ocf","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998","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=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}