{"id":2341,"date":"2012-11-07T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2012-11-09T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:24:08","slug":"when-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"When we can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.\u00a0\u00a0Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters\u2014that you may be increased there, and not diminished.\u00a0And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.<br \/>\nJeremiah 29:5-7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Christians, we are first of all citizens of Heaven.\u00a0 We desire a &#8220;better country&#8221;.\u00a0 But we are to be good citizens\u00a0of our earthly country\u00a0as well.\u00a0 We are commanded to fear God and honor the king.\u00a0 We should not put too much stock in the political process.\u00a0 On the other hand, if we can use it to promote or defend righteousness, we should do it.\u00a0 Preach to Caesar when we can; appeal to Caesar if we must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.\u00a0\u00a0Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters\u2014that you may be increased there, and not diminished.\u00a0And seek the peace of the city where I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When we can&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}