{"id":20826,"date":"2023-12-24T05:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T05:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=20826"},"modified":"2023-12-24T05:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T05:28:38","slug":"why-did-christ-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/12\/why-did-christ-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Christ Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Hymn<i>\u2014Hark! The Herald Angels Sing<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/358906613\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Scripture Reading<i>\u20141 Thessalonians 1<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Opening Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Hymn<i>\u2014The First Noel<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/363702688\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Sermon<i>\u2014Why Did Christ Come? (See Above)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Hymn<i>\u2014What Child Is This?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/363703203\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Closing Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. (1 Tim 1:17)<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"20826\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR A COMPLETE ORDER OF WORSHIP, INCLUDING BIBLE READING, HYMNS AND SERMON&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":12896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[954,999],"tags":[1192],"class_list":["post-20826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ahb-worship-services","category-don-fortners-sermons","tag-christmas","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20828,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions\/20828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}