{"id":1118,"count":0,"description":"<p>Bob Wring was born in Paducah, Kentucky and became a Christian when he was ten years old.\u00a0 After serving in the U.S. Navy, he was called into the ministry in 1975.\u00a0 He has been pastor of the Mountain Highway Baptist Church in Spanaway, Washington since 2005.\u00a0 He graduated in 2002 with a Ph.D in Practical Theology at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee.\u00a0His doctoral dissertation was entitled: An Examination of The Practice of Elder Rule in Selected Southern Baptist Churches in the Light of New Testament Teaching.\u00a0Dr. Wring seeks to promote and preserve the historic biblical teaching of congregational church polity with the biblical leadership of a pastor and deacons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/bob-wring\/bob-wring-on-church-officers-complete\/\">Bob Wring on Church Officers (Complete)<\/a><\/h5>","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/bob-wring\/","name":"Bob Wring","slug":"bob-wring","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}