{"id":949,"date":"2011-10-26T21:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T01:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2011-10-26T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T01:15:25","slug":"on-being-a-witness-at-a-trial-churches-and-tax-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/on-being-a-witness-at-a-trial-churches-and-tax-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"On being a witness at a trial&#8230;churches and tax assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Witness-Stand1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-951\" title=\"Witness Stand\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Witness-Stand1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Yesterday (Tuesday, October 25, 2011) I was a witness at a trial for the first time in my life.\u00a0\u00a0 I was a witness for Northmoreland Baptist Church (Pastor Howell) in the Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania area.\u00a0 The church is challenging a tax assessment of its multi-purpose room by the county.\u00a0 As I was sitting there, I was thinking that this was an honorable way or method for people to work out their complaints with each other.\u00a0 In some places in the world, this kind of disagreement would not be handled this way at all&#8211;in fact disagreement with authorities would not even be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>My testimony was for the purpose of showing Baptist views of worship and that the church in question was using its facilities in a way consistent with Baptist theology and tradition.\u00a0 In doing so, I feel like I not only supported the cause of Christ for the church but also did my civic duty for the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Tuesday, October 25, 2011) I was a witness at a trial for the first time in my life.\u00a0\u00a0 I was a witness for Northmoreland Baptist Church (Pastor Howell) in the Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania area.\u00a0 The church is challenging a tax assessment of its multi-purpose room by the county.\u00a0 As I was sitting there, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}