{"id":1672,"count":1,"description":"Stephen The Evangelist (?-34AD) was a sovereign grace Baptist preacher. He was a member of one of the congregations in Jerusalem, endowed with spiritual wisdom and held in high esteem by the brethren. He was gifted and called to preach the gospel, a commission he fulfilled in the face of great opposition. He is the first Christian on record to suffer martyrdom after the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ. \r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/stephen-the-evangelist\/","name":"Stephen The Evangelist","slug":"stephen-the-evangelist","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1672","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=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}