{"id":34,"date":"2016-05-30T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctpress2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2021-03-01T05:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T10:38:15","slug":"knowing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/knowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;For I decided to <strong>know<\/strong> nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified&#8221; -I Corinthians 2:2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Knowing Christ is an amazing lifelong journey!\u00a0Start your journey with Charles Town Presbyterian Church:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/about\/\">Attend one of our worship services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/meet-pastor-john\/\">Meet our Pastor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/serving\/\">Serve in one of our ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/what-we-believe\/what-makes-us-unique\/#pres\">What is a\u00a0Presbyterian<\/a>?\u00a0The name Presbyterian comes from the Greek term in the new testament for elder,\u00a0<em>presbuteros<\/em>, a term used 72 times in the New Testament. \u00a0Presbyterian church government emphasizes that the <strong>leadership of the church is shared<\/strong> between those called to be ministers and church members called to be elders within the congregation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/what-we-believe\/\">What We Believe<\/a>: \u00a0We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God and inerrant in the original writings. We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/what-we-believe\/what-makes-us-unique\/#1\">What is unique about the Presbyterian Church?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Presbyterians are distinctive in two major ways. They adhere to a pattern of religious thought known as Reformed theology and a form of government that stresses the active, representational leadership of both ministers and church members.<\/li>\n<li>Our mission statement is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/knowing\/\">Knowing Christ<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/growing\/\">Growing in God&#8217;s love<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/serving\/\">Serving as the Holy Spirit Leads<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 This statement is supported by our core values: Scripture, the Lordship of Christ, Godly relationship, Christian education, outreach, and reformed heritage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified&#8221; -I Corinthians 2:2 Knowing Christ is an amazing lifelong journey!\u00a0Start your journey with Charles Town Presbyterian Church: Attend one of our worship services Meet our Pastor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/knowing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9245,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/9245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}