{"id":6673,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/why-baptists-dont-do-lent\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","slug":"why-baptists-dont-do-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/why-baptists-dont-do-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Baptists Don&#8217;t Do Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on Lent.                                             Isaiah 58:1-8<\/p>\n<p>                           WHY BAPTISTS DON&#8217;T DO LENT<br \/>\n                           ==========================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Catholic girlfriends.<\/p>\n<p>    II. Calendars differ between churches.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Are we anti-Lent because we are anti-Catholic?<br \/>\n         A. Many here grew up Catholic.<br \/>\n         B. A stand against Formalism and human tradition.            Mark 7<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Lent has its place.<br \/>\n         A. The symbolism of Lent is appropriate.<br \/>\n         B. Lent is always an option, but never a requirement.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Doing Lent right.<br \/>\n         A. Self-sacrifice can focus our thoughts.              Matthew 9:15<br \/>\n         B. Isaiah&#8217;s rebuke to Israel.                          Isaiah 58<br \/>\n         C. What to give up for Lent.<br \/>\n             1) Give up evil practices.               Judges 2:19<br \/>\n             2) Give up violence and oppression.      Ezekiel 45:9<br \/>\n             3) Give up religious compromise.         Daniel 3:28<br \/>\n             4) Give up your possessions.             Luke 14:33<br \/>\n         D. What not to give up.<br \/>\n             1) Don&#8217;t give up prayer.                 Luke 18:1<br \/>\n             2) Don&#8217;t give up doing good.             Galatians 6:9<br \/>\n             3) Don&#8217;t give up church attendance.      Hebrews 10:25<\/p>\n<p>    VI. God gave up more than we give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on Lent. Isaiah 58:1-8 WHY BAPTISTS DON&#8217;T DO LENT ========================== I. Catholic girlfriends. II. Calendars differ between churches. III. Are we anti-Lent because we are anti-Catholic? A. Many here grew up Catholic. B. A stand against Formalism and human tradition. Mark 7 IV. Lent has its place. A. The symbolism of Lent is appropriate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2213,1620,2211,1770,2212,2210,387,22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673"}],"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=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}