{"id":6,"date":"2007-09-29T20:54:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T03:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-10-13T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T04:12:20","slug":"youre-doing-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/youre-doing-what\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re Doing What ?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who don’t know, I’m currently in the Air Force.\u00a0 I’ve been in for over 9 years now and will be promoted to Major at the end of January.\u00a0 I’ve recently made the decision to get out of the Air Force and enter the ministry\u00a0full-time.\u00a0 I will be working with the excellent folks at Adventures in Missions<\/font><\/a> and G42, led by Andrew Shearman<\/a> and Seth Barnes<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0 I should be joining them by Fall 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The military, even if it doesn’t pay much, has some nice perks.\u00a0 One of those perks is a nice pension and health care for life once you retire (after 20 years).\u00a0 The reaction that I most get from my co-workers after I tell them what I am doing is “YOU’RE DOING WHAT?!?!”\u00a0 For the most part, all they see is me throwing away an easy life, and all I have to do is put in 10 more years.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>What I then get to explain to them is the amazing opportunity that I have: I have the priviledge of working for the Kingdom of Christ Jesus.\u00a0 I have the amazing calling of working for the creator of the universe!\u00a0 I will be feeding orphans and widows, spreading the love and message of Jesus, showing others the gift of abundant life, and training the next generation to become pastors, christ-like business and community leaders, and Warriors for the cause.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I am not worried about losing free health care, an assured job, and the comfort and ease of a life that\u00a0I simply let play around me.\u00a0 Instead, I am grabbing life by the horns, stepping out of my comfort zone, and living life as a radical; emulating Jesus in all that I do, preaching the gospel and making a difference in my generation and the next, and the next, and the next, …<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who don’t know, I’m currently in the Air Force.\u00a0 I’ve been in for over 9 years now and will be promoted to Major at the end of January.\u00a0 I’ve recently made the decision to get out of the Air Force and enter the ministry\u00a0full-time.\u00a0 I will be working with the excellent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}