By Lee Hanks WE BELIEVE the Primitive Baptists to be the church of God in origin, faith and practice. No other organization on earth can trace its identity to Jesus Christ as the founder. We can give the names of men who founded the other organizations. All others are too young founded by the wrong party…
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Unity
Reproduced from The Writings of S.A. Paine by Banner of Love Press. Unity in the house of God is one of the most adorning graces with which she can possibly be clothed. With this powerful virtue abounding, she towers in glory above every earthly pinnacle; emits her full light in brilliant rays as a warmth…
His Banner of Love
By Vaughn Winslett Song of Solomon chapter 2 vs 4, “He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love.” As blessed as we are by the grace of God, being enabled to see Jesus Christ we should be overwhelmed by God’s love for His own. Scripture through the Holy Spirit,…
Why Primitive Baptists Practice Closed Communion
By Wayne Crocker Many denominations practice open communions of one form or another. Some make communion available to any and all who wish to participate. Others place some restrictions, but still allow those of other denominations to join with them in the service. Primitive Baptists are sometimes criticized for our practice of closed communion. We…
What Kills Churches?
By Eddy Flick For my own profit I have gathered these scriptures. It may not be a complete so if you know of any other NT churches in the scriptures please let me know. But to the question at hand: We all have seen in our lifetimes the demise of churches. It is sad, and…
Baptist Associations
By Sylvester Hassell MADISONVILLE, TEXAS, July 8, 1897 DEAR BRO. HASSELL: After in such agitation of the associational question here, the following agreement was reached at our last meeting, Elders Dubose, Taylor and White being present: That, doing away within the Ebenezer Association, we re-adopt the following declaration of its preamble of principles as the…
The Case For Close Communion
By David Pyles Via www.PB.org There are various views in the denominational world concerning what is proper participation in a communion service. Some believe it should consist only of members of the local church. This view seems overly restrictive to me, but I recognize the right of any church to have such a policy and…
A Note on Rebaptism to the Prospective Primitive Baptist
By David PylesVia www.PB.org Some potential converts to the Primitive Baptists have difficulty understanding their policy of rebaptizing all who come to them from other orders. This ancient practice of Primitive Baptists has many points in its defense. I attempt to present some of them in what follows, and wish particularly to address the most…
Primitive Baptists And Hyper-Calvinism
I have noticed a troubling movement among Fullerite Calvinists to redefine Hyper-Calvinism as being any viewpoint which rejects their view on the atonement* and duty faith (including many traditional 5-point Calvinists and other Predestinarians). Thus, a common attack against Primitive Baptists in recent years has been that we are Hyper-Calvinists. Many mainstream Fullerite Calvinists have made…