{"id":71,"date":"2008-11-04T03:30:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeshowga.com\/blog2\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-11-04T03:30:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T03:30:32","slug":"patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been challenged by several events regarding my patiotism. Let me offer an idea that may be unpopular with some. We have been studying Daniel lately at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.12Stone.com\">12Stone<\/a>\u00a0and I have learned that I am a citizen of Heaven first and the United States of America second. When I was growing up\u00a0I equated being American with being Christian. That is not necessarily true any more.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my friends and connections are both Americans and Christians but I see a divergence of those two ideals and I think it will get worse before it gets better and if I have to choose, I choose to be a Christian first.\u00a0This does not mean that I love my country less than before. I love my country. I love to hear the national anthem. I love to hear the words &#8220;welcome home&#8221; when I come back from traveling overseas. I love the men and women that fight for freedom for us and for those around the world.<\/p>\n<p>I am a patriot but when I have to choose (and I have had to more and more) I choose my 1st citizenship responsibility in Heaven. I want to see my country come back to a true practice of Christianity. That is not fundamentalism but rather a relationship to Christ. Religion is an effort of man to reach to God but Christianity is not like that. If you want to discuss this more just call me. I would love to share a cup of coffee with some of these ideas.\u00a0Go out tomorrow and vote. I hope you have done your homework and prepared for the monumental task of voting. It is an awesome responsibility. Go Vote!<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Robertson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been challenged by several events regarding my patiotism. Let me offer an idea that may be unpopular with some. We have been studying Daniel lately at\u00a012Stone\u00a0and I have learned that I am a citizen of Heaven first and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/?p=71\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realtycaffeine.com\/grace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}