{"id":1565,"date":"2013-07-04T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2013-07-03T23:15:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T04:15:49","slug":"one-nation-under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATING JULY 4 AS CHRISTIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 28px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thewriter58.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/american-flag-cross-gop1.jpg\" width=\"506\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am very glad for a whole bunch of reasons to be living in America.\u00a0 And I am in awe of those brave soldiers who continue to serve us well&#8230;many making low incomes and receiving rather faint (if even that) praise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But let&#8217;s remember that America, even at its best, is not the same as the kingdom of God.\u00a0 All of us Christians need to maintain a &#8220;prophetic distance&#8221; from America in order to not only be honoring to the only rightful King, but to serve our country in ways she desperately needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very glad for a whole bunch of reasons to be living in America.\u00a0 And I am in awe of those brave soldiers who continue to serve us well&#8230;many making low incomes and receiving rather faint (if even that) praise. But let&#8217;s remember that America, even at its best, is not the same as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,53,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-politics","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}