{"id":98150,"date":"2016-11-21T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=98150"},"modified":"2016-11-21T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:44:07","slug":"living-as-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/11\/living-as-if.html","title":{"rendered":"Living &#8220;as if&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/15193413_10209253723474401_8689914735493015911_n.jpg?oh=e4015acc9f81eefbfa075a92da08eb58&amp;oe=58CB6B5D\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The president-elect\u2019s Chief Strategist is a man who proudly boasts giving a platform to such filth. What do we do about enemies who advocate grave moral evil and who now have massive power? Pray for their redemption and work for their crushing defeat. Fight them, not with hatred, but with a will to live \u201cas if\u201d\u2013as if Christ is risen, as if the power of the Holy Spirit to live in love and mercy *is* yours for the asking, as if you can be a saint, as if your enemy\u2013evil as he may be\u2013is one for whom Christ also died, as if you truly can not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good, as if the day is hasting when this evil will destroy itself, as if human life (including the life of your enemy) is sacred from conception to natural death, as if love is still at the heart of reality and as if gratitude really is the deepest and most proper posture of the human soul.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president-elect\u2019s Chief Strategist is a man who proudly boasts giving a platform to such filth. 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