{"id":547,"date":"2012-07-15T00:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T06:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-07-15T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T06:24:45","slug":"something-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"SOMETHING IS MISSING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is missing for\u00a0 &#8220;CHANGING AMERICA BACK&#8221; ?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>01)\u00a0\u00a0 Christians&#8212;God&#8217;s People&#8212;His Church&#8212;must &#8220;turn from their wicked ways&#8221; of following the culture instead of leading.<\/p>\n<p>Christians and churches have their money in the wrong place, and therefore their hearts are in the wrong place, and that&#8217;s why our country is in the wrong place today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid.&#8221;\u00a0 No!\u00a0 It&#8217;s the stupid economy paralyzing the church that has treasures laid up on earth, against the teachings of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The church participates fully in the economics of the culture, but it is afraid to participate in the politics of the culture because that may jeopardize money vested in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Christians, individually and collectively, have their money tied up, so the government takes over the church&#8217;s job of caring for those in need.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s why the government has become more powerful than the church.<\/p>\n<p>Adamant defense of treasures laid up on earth for retirement and spent on insurance, further shows the missing first step of humbling ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>02)\u00a0 We need leadership to step forward right now&#8212;leadership willing to say what isn&#8217;t being said and lead Americans willing to do what needs to be done.\u00a0 There are still enough patriots ready to follow orders, like they did 236 years ago.\u00a0 Right now that leadership is still missing, and time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saving America now will take more than politics and talk shows and sweet sermons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is missing for\u00a0 &#8220;CHANGING AMERICA BACK&#8221; ? &nbsp; 01)\u00a0\u00a0 Christians&#8212;God&#8217;s People&#8212;His Church&#8212;must &#8220;turn from their wicked ways&#8221; of following the culture instead of leading. Christians and churches have their money in the wrong place, and therefore their hearts are in the wrong place, and that&#8217;s why our country is in the wrong place today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}