{"id":4570,"date":"2018-06-04T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2018-06-04T08:35:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:35:58","slug":"the-faith-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4570","title":{"rendered":"The faith commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to counter the efficacy of baptism, many e<span style=\"color: rgb(33,33,37); font-family: \" opensans\",sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: font-variant-caps: font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: orphans: 2text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: widows: 2; word-spacing: -webkit-text-stroke-width: background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: display: inline!important; float: text-align: left;\">vangelicals refer to the story of the Philippian jailer (Acts 16). The jailer cries out, &#8220;What must I do to be saved?&#8221; and Paul and Silas reply, &#8220;Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved\u2014you and your household&#8221; (Acts 16:31). It seems there is no demand for baptism. However, actions speak louder than words because verse 33 says that &#8220;immediately they were baptized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Baptism therefore seems to be the way one makes the faith commitment<\/i><\/span><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to counter the efficacy of baptism, many evangelicals refer to the story of the Philippian jailer (Acts 16). The jailer cries out, &#8220;What must I do to be saved?&#8221; and Paul and Silas reply, &#8220;Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved\u2014you and your household&#8221; (Acts 16:31). It seems &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The faith commitment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/4570"}],"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=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}