{"id":1935,"date":"2013-12-11T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2013-12-11T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:55:39","slug":"christians-complain-fight-or-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIANS&#8212;COMPLAIN, FIGHT, OR WITNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COMPLAIN&#8212;Crying &#8220;No Fair&#8221; makes no difference anymore.\u00a0 Unequal treatment of Christians and the unconstitutional tsunami on the first amendment is the present reality.<\/p>\n<p>FIGHT&#8212;Christians influenced elections in the past.\u00a0 That has changed.\u00a0 Christian lawyers have won over ninety percent of religious liberty cases.\u00a0 That will change when the Supreme Court changes.\u00a0 Fight if you can win?\u00a0 Shut up if you&#8217;re going to lose?<\/p>\n<p>WITNESS&#8212;Win or lose, witness.\u00a0 Win or lose, stand up for the right.\u00a0 Win or lose, fight for the helpless and less fortunate.\u00a0 Win or lose, remember that you are the salt of the earth&#8212;make a difference in the everyday decay around you.\u00a0 Win or lose, remember you are the light of the world&#8212;make a difference in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Now, change one word in the title:<\/p>\n<p>Complain, Fight, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> Witness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for Christians to stop practicing selective discipleship&#8212;weighing the climate of the culture and vacillating like politicians and polls.<\/p>\n<p>Partial obedience does not bring revival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMPLAIN&#8212;Crying &#8220;No Fair&#8221; makes no difference anymore.\u00a0 Unequal treatment of Christians and the unconstitutional tsunami on the first amendment is the present reality. FIGHT&#8212;Christians influenced elections in the past.\u00a0 That has changed.\u00a0 Christian lawyers have won over ninety percent of religious liberty cases.\u00a0 That will change when the Supreme Court changes.\u00a0 Fight if you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}