{"id":977,"date":"2012-11-06T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T13:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulwod\/?p=977"},"modified":"2012-11-06T06:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T13:02:17","slug":"the-most-important-thing-youll-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulwod\/2012\/11\/the-most-important-thing-youll-do-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Thing You&#8217;ll Do Today"},"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>No, it is not voting. \u00a0Vote if you like, but Christians need to keep such actions in perspective and not get caught up in pseudo-salvations. We have a duty, as theologian Stanley Hauerwas recently said, not to take voting too seriously. \u00a0Instead as an act of\u00a0allegiance\u00a0and reorientation take part in communion with other Christians. \u00a0Throughout the country churches are holding communion to mark our true identity as Christ\u2019s people. \u00a0Find a Eucharist near you here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/electiondaycommunion.org\/participating-congregations\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/electiondaycommunion.org\/participating-congregations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it is not voting. \u00a0Vote if you like, but Christians need to keep such actions in perspective and not get caught up in pseudo-salvations. 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