{"id":4133,"date":"2019-11-23T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2019-11-23T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:28:32","slug":"comeback-after-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"? COMEBACK AFTER COMPROMISE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a person have a comeback and return to the narrow road after compromising to fit in with the Godless culture and appease its leaders?<\/p>\n<p>Can a company have a comeback and return to the narrow road after compromising to fit in with the Godless culture and appease its leaders?<\/p>\n<p>Not likely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cost is great for standing on Biblical values and standing up for them publicly now in sodomized America.<\/p>\n<p>This is true for individuals and for companies&#8212;and companies are led by individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of Chik-fil-A took a lot of heat for standing on Biblical values, and for stating so publicly.<\/p>\n<p>But that will be nothing compared to the increased heat, the pounding, they will now face from the Godless culture leaders after their compromise this week.<\/p>\n<p>AND, even that will be nothing compared to the persecution they will experience if they come back to the Bible, and declare it publicly, like they did before.<\/p>\n<p>But they will again have God&#8217;s approval, God&#8217;s smile, and the overwhelming support of Christians who created the long lines at Chik-fil-A in the first place&#8212;an ongoing trademark at their restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just how does this apply to the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>That depends on whether we follow Jesus and His Word?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All who live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is going to try you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, &#8220;Choose this day whom you will serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a person have a comeback and return to the narrow road after compromising to fit in with the Godless culture and appease its leaders? Can a company have a comeback and return to the narrow road after compromising to fit in with the Godless culture and appease its leaders? Not likely. &nbsp; The cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"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=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}