{"id":2358,"date":"2012-02-29T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2012-02-29T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:25:52","slug":"i-am-a-christian-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/i-am-a-christian-so\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Am a Christian. So&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read excerpts of a <a href='http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/blogs\/2012\/02\/21\/transcript-barack-obama-and-god-factor-interview'>2004 &#8220;faith and you&#8221; interview<\/a> with now-President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>If he still holds those views, I must pray for his redemption or revival.<\/p>\n<p>But what about my own spiritual condition?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Right at the beginning of the interview, Barack Obama declares:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">I am a Christian. So&#8230;<\/div>\n<p>The rest of the interview is a dismal expression of historic Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>But what about my own expression of the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean merely my verbal statements of faith and doctrine and theology, though they factor in to what I mean. Rather, I mean my life expression of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a Christian,&#8221; I declare again.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;what impact and effect does that have on my proverbial day-to-day living?<\/p>\n<p><b>What is my life expression of the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Does it withstand God&#8217;s scrutiny any better than I think the Obama statements withstand God&#8217;s scrutiny?<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2012\/02\/28\/obama-before-he-was-famous\/\" title=\"Obama Before He Was Famous | World Magazine\">Obama Before He Was Famous<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read excerpts of a 2004 &#8220;faith and you&#8221; interview with now-President Obama. If he still holds those views, I must pray for his redemption or revival. But what about my own spiritual condition?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,534],"tags":[72,686,446,903],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-todays-thought","tag-christianity","tag-faith","tag-prayer","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-C2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}