{"id":26550,"date":"2025-12-07T16:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=26550"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:20:37","slug":"latin-services-coming-to-a-reformed-baptist-church-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/12\/latin-services-coming-to-a-reformed-baptist-church-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin Services &#8211; Coming To A Reformed Baptist Church Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The insignias below are becoming more common among Reformed Baptist churches. I understand the preachers are making a gentle shift from English to Latin. By the year 2050, the elders may be proficient to preach in Latin. I think Latin classes are now offered in some places after the liturgy, sacrament, catechism and confessional pledge? On this trajectory, they will reform themselves to the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001-272x300.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001-929x1024.jpeg 929w, https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001-768x846.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001-500x551.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Reformed-Baptist-Church-Latin.001-800x882.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(This is a photo, not a video link)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"26550\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above insignias are becoming more common among Reformed Baptist churches. I understand the preachers are making a gentle shift from English to Latin. By the year 2050, the elders may be proficient to preach in Latin. I think Latin classes are now offered in some places after the liturgy, sacrament, catechism and confessional pledge? On this trajectory, they will reform themselves to the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018],"tags":[1204],"class_list":["post-26550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jared-smiths-bits-and-pieces","tag-reformed-baptists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26550"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26558,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions\/26558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}