{"id":4633,"date":"2018-09-14T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2018-09-14T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:24:17","slug":"baptism-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4633","title":{"rendered":"Baptism &#8211; Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baptism is a work, but it is God&#8217;s work.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Baptism is a promise (&#8220;For the <em>promise<\/em> is to you and to your children&#8230;&#8221; Acts 2:39)<br \/>\n<\/span>Baptism is the way that God delivers the gift to me; faith is the way that I receive the gift.<br \/>\nBaptism delivers the promise that faith clings to.<br \/>\nFaith is like the beggar&#8217;s receiving hand, as Luther put it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baptism is a work, but it is God&#8217;s work. Baptism is a promise (&#8220;For the promise is to you and to your children&#8230;&#8221; Acts 2:39) Baptism is the way that God delivers the gift to me; faith is the way that I receive the gift. Baptism delivers the promise that faith clings to. Faith is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baptism &#8211; Essentials&#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\/4633"}],"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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4634,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}