{"id":5588,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/what-it-takes-to-be-a-baptist\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","slug":"what-it-takes-to-be-a-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/what-it-takes-to-be-a-baptist\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Takes To Be a Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rev. Patrick Pang gives this story about himself (probably apocryphal):<\/p>\n

As he challenged his congregation in Columbus, Ohio, he asked the audience, “How many of you here are Baptist?” Many hands shot up.<\/p>\n

“How many of you are not Baptists?” A single hand in the back nervously went up. “May I ask what religious group, if any, you belong to?”<\/p>\n

She said, “I am a Methodist.”<\/p>\n

Pang continued, “And what makes you a Methodist?”<\/p>\n

She said, “Well, my parents were Methodist, and my grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my cousins and uncles are all Methodist.”<\/p>\n

Pang challenged her, “Ma’am, if your parents and grandfather and cousins and uncles were all morons, what would that make you?”<\/p>\n

“A Baptist,” she replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rev. Patrick Pang gives this story about himself (probably apocryphal): As he challenged his congregation in Columbus, Ohio, he asked the audience, “How many of you here are Baptist?” Many hands shot up. “How many of you are not Baptists?” A single hand in the back nervously went up. “May I ask what religious group, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1620,1064,2960,296,1712],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}