{"id":29,"date":"2011-10-13T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T20:56:23","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBC is a local New Testament Family of God called the Church.<\/p>\n<p>We are believers of God\u2019s Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that God\u2019s Word must be applied to our daily walk with&nbsp;the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s love is the reason we are who we are. Romans 5:8 shows us&nbsp;the magnitude of God\u2019s love. God demonstrated His love by&nbsp;sending Jesus Christ to be our sacrifice and to pay the penalty for&nbsp;our sins. Once we understand salvation and we become converted&nbsp;God\u2019s love is shed abroad in our hearts by His Spirit&nbsp;(Romans 5:5).<\/p>\n<p>The goal of all we do is to love God with all of our&nbsp;hearts, souls, minds and strength. The second priority is to share&nbsp;that love with others as we allow God to love them through us.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Baptist Church is a member of the Southern Baptist&nbsp;Convention and the Franklin County Baptist Association.<\/p>\n<p>What we believe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbc.net\/bfm\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Baptist Faith and Message&nbsp;(Click Here to View)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7050,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}