{"id":3066,"date":"2022-07-16T21:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2022-07-16T21:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:43:51","slug":"thanks-be-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3066","title":{"rendered":"Thanks be to God!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the last words Jesus spoke to His disciples were the threefold instruction: make disciples, baptize those who believe, and teach them His commands (Matt. 28:19-20). We baptize because Jesus told us to and Baptism gives us an opportunity to witness to our faith as The New Testament and church history indicate.\u00a0 Baptism served as the initial profession of faith of early believers and we continue to offer this Sacrament of welcome and celebration of the power of faith.\u00a0 Join us as Greg Smith receives the Sacrament of Baptism this Sunday at 10am.\u00a0 We offer our service in-person, or on-line through Facebook Live and You Tube.\u00a0 The bulletin can be found in the virtual bulletin tab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Baptism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Baptism-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Baptism-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Baptism-1024x424.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Baptism-768x318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Baptism.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the last words Jesus spoke to His disciples were the threefold instruction: make disciples, baptize those who believe, and teach them His commands (Matt. 28:19-20). We baptize because Jesus told us to and Baptism gives us an opportunity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3066\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}