{"id":5010,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/re-examining-our-basic-assumptions\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:04","slug":"re-examining-our-basic-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/re-examining-our-basic-assumptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Examining Our Basic Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Merle Miller&#8217;s biography of Lyndon Johnson, he quotes President Johnson saying in 1969, after he had left office, \u201cI never felt I had the luxury of re-examining my basic assumptions.  Once the decision to commit military force was made, all our energies were turned to vindicating that choice and finding a way somehow to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it was that failure to reexamine the basic assumption that formed the tragedy of the Johnson administration \u2013 at the expense of tens of thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p>THAT is what REPENTANCE is about \u2013 not just acting sorry, but going in and looking at the basic assumptions and then making real changes.<\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n<p>Brett Blair,  www.eSermons.com , Jan 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Merle Miller&#8217;s biography of Lyndon Johnson, he quotes President Johnson saying in 1969, after he had left office, \u201cI never felt I had the luxury of re-examining my basic assumptions. Once the decision to commit military force was made, all our energies were turned to vindicating that choice and finding a way somehow to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[389,983],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}