{"id":55441,"date":"2016-08-27T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_living_daring_confidence_in_gods_grace-church_of_the_advents_theological_\/"},"modified":"2016-08-27T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:53:17","slug":"a_living_daring_confidence_in_gods_grace-church_of_the_advents_theological_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55441","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cliving, daring confidence in God\u2019s grace&#34;-Church of the Advent&#39;s Theological Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advent is a Gospel-centered church, with a \u201cliving, daring confidence in God\u2019s grace\u201d\u009d (Martin Luther) evident in any of our programs and ministries.  Holding to what the Letter of Jude calls \u201cthe faith that was once for all delivered to the saints\u201d\u009d, this Gospel focus finds the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus ever and only at the center. The most comprehensive summation of our traditional Anglican doctrine is found in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.<\/p>\n<p>And what are the \u201cfruits\u201d\u009d of that theology?<\/p>\n<p>A Heart for the Gospel:<br \/>\nWhen we say we have a heart for the Gospel, we mean that we are passionate about lifting Jesus up in his life, death, and resurrection. Only Jesus has the power to change the heart of a sinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventbirmingham.org\/about\/theology\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent is a Gospel-centered church, with a \u201cliving, daring confidence in God\u2019s grace\u201d\u009d (Martin Luther) evident in any of our programs and ministries. Holding to what the Letter of Jude calls \u201cthe faith that was once for all delivered to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55441\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,162,184,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christology","category-parish-ministry","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}