{"id":230,"date":"2007-05-02T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:51:45","slug":"reinvigorating-baptist-practice-of-the-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My article on the ordinances, &#8220;Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances&#8221;\u009d, which I have <a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/search?q=ordinances\">previously mentioned<\/a>, is now available online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\/personal\/rvannest\/Professional\/Articles_files\/Reinvigorating%20Baptist%20Practice%20of%20the%20Ordinances.pdf\">here<\/a>. I discuss briefly some reasons I think these Christ-ordained institutions have fallen on hard times in Baptist churches and then argue for some specific ways to move forward. Among other things I argue for &#8220;immediate&#8221; baptism and weekly communion. I would be interested in any thoughts on the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article on the ordinances, &#8220;Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances&#8221;\u009d, which I have previously mentioned, is now available online here. I discuss briefly some reasons I think these Christ-ordained institutions have fallen on hard times in Baptist churches and then argue for some specific ways to move forward. Among other things I argue for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Reinvigorating Baptist Practice of the Ordinances&#8221;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,6,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}