{"id":1304,"count":4,"description":"John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a sovereign grace preacher, author and poet. He was appointed the pastor of a non-conformist church in Bedford. Although he was a baptized believer, it is questionably whether the Bedford congregation was a Baptist church. He was an open-communionist, welcoming to the Lord\u2019s Table all who professed faith in Christ. An open Table of this kind sidelines the ordinance of Baptism, thereby undermining a \u2018Baptist\u2019 identity. Nevertheless, Bunyan nurtured strong views on sovereign grace and is best known for his Christian allegory, \u201cThe Pilgrim\u2019s Progress\u201d. \r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/john-bunyan\/","name":"John Bunyan","slug":"john-bunyan","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1304","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=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}