{"id":21,"date":"2024-02-18T21:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2024-09-02T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:41:50","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Christ Centered and Scripturally Based<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Elon, we believe in only one true and living God, Creator of Heaven and earth, perfect, all knowing and all powerful (Dt 6:4-5).  The eternal God is the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit and although they have separate characteristics, there is no difference in their nature(Mt 28:19-20). Man is made in Gods likeness (Gn&nbsp;1:26), and by his free choice man sinned against God (Rm 3:23).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God sent His only Son to die for us (Jn 3:16, 1 Pt 3:18)&nbsp; To receive salvation and forgiveness in needs only to acknowledge his sin and believe in the death and resurrection of Christ (Rm 10:9-10). We were given the Bible which is God\u2019s word written by man inspired by God; it is a book of instruction for living a life as God intends for us and is without mistake (2 Tm 3:16). In it He reveals Himself, tells of man\u2019s beginning, the fall of man, and man\u2019s ability to have a relationship with Him both here on earth and for eternity (Jn 14:2-3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elon_Church_Bylaws.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elon_Church_Bylaws.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>View Our Church Bylaws!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Centered and Scripturally Based At Elon, we believe in only one true and living God, Creator of Heaven and earth, perfect, all knowing and all powerful (Dt 6:4-5). The eternal God is the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit and although they have separate characteristics, there is no difference in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elonbc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}