{"id":38,"date":"2011-03-07T02:13:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2020-10-22T00:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:57:30","slug":"vision-for-union-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/vision-for-union-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Union Primitive Baptist Church<br \/>\nof the<br \/>\nLord Jesus Christ<\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\">\n<p><em>Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.<br \/>\n&#8212; Luke 2:14 &#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pastor&#8217;s vision for the church is for us to be abundantly and increasingly loving and serving the Lord Jesus Christ by giving (1) glory to God, (2) gospel to the broken-hearted, and (3) goodness to all men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glory to God &#8211; This primarily involves worship, and includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fervent and frequent prayer<\/li>\n<li>Heartfelt singing, joyous or mournful, but taken seriously<\/li>\n<li>Reverence for God&#8217;s word<\/li>\n<li>Asking for God&#8217;s presence<\/li>\n<li>Waiting for the Lord&#8217;s return<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gospel to the brokenhearted &#8211; This primarily involves witness, teaching and outreach, and includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preaching Jesus Christ, and Him crucified<\/li>\n<li>Our welcome to visitors<\/li>\n<li>Our invitation for folks to visit<\/li>\n<li>Our identification with the Lord as disciples in our daily lives<\/li>\n<li>Materials or information we might distribute<\/li>\n<li>Contributing to the spread of the gospel<\/li>\n<li>Sound counsel from the Bible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Goodness to all men (especially those who are of the household of faith) &#8211; This primarily involves work to help one another, and others<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ministering to others in prayer<\/li>\n<li>Visiting the widows, fatherless, sick, and imprisoned<\/li>\n<li>Feeding, clothing, or otherwise helping those in need<\/li>\n<li>Providing a good, safe place for children to hear the truth in love<\/li>\n<li>Build friendships within the church<\/li>\n<li>Increasing fellowship with our sister churches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Primitive Baptist Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. &#8212; Luke 2:14 &#8212; The Pastor&#8217;s vision for the church is for us to be abundantly and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/vision-for-union-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionpbc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}