A) Church Covenant of New Home Church B) INTRODUCTION C) Definition Of Terms Chapter 1: Origins of “Baptists” Chapter 2: Historical Origins of “baptized Churches of Christ” Chapter 3: Origins of “Baptists” Chapter 4: The Great Awakening Chapter 5: Commencement of The Modern Great Apostasy Chapter 6: Practical Aspects of The Churches of Jesus Christ Chapter 7: Doing All Things in Decency and in Order Chapter 8: The Government of the Church… Read More

NEW HOME CHURCH Clarke County Mississippi beside Highway 18, fourteen miles east of Quitman, Mississippi New Home Church is an Old School Predestinarian Primitive Baptist Church (See Definitions). The Church was formed November 27th, 1909 with the following members holding letters which were examined and found orderly and orthodox: H. I. E. Carroll, C. L. Satcher, William Williams, Nancy Carroll, and V. A. Avera. Preaching by Elders L. F. Easley and W…. Read More

“. . . the Baptized Churches Of Christ” After having published two or three articles on various aspects of the baptized churches of Christ, known as Old School Baptists of the predestinarian faith and primitive order, we design to present an in-depth discussion of this faith and send it forth in book form. Our intent is to define our unique terms, present the historical development of church issues that produced these unique… Read More

Baptized – As used in the New Testament, it is the full immersion, or dipping, of the body of a professed believer under water as a figure of his death, burial and resurrection in Christ Jesus. Almost all Eastern Orthodox Catholics today baptize by immersion, but they also baptize infants in lieu of the Jewish rite of circumcision. Hence, they are paedobaptists. Paedobaptists – Any denomination of the Catholic/Protestant “Church” that either… Read More

At the outset, we wish to clarify our historical record below by pointing out that we are not presenting a “church succession” of modern churches from earlier churches in a lineal history. Such cannot be done, and those who attempt it are intellectually dishonest, or have too much faith in such that are. Protestants can trace their origins from Constantine’s religious enterprise at Rome, which in turn can “claim” that the church… Read More

The churches of the New Testament did not have “names.” There is no mention of a subdivision of the church into “denominations” in the New Testament. The church was a numerator – that is, it was one body, taken in the sense of the whole community of believers. Today, there truthfully is no such thing as a “denomination” of the true church. However, there are many denominations of the Roman Catholic Church…. Read More

Another very significant event in the history of our churches was the Great Awakening (1720-1760). A gradual awareness that many souls scattered throughout the American frontier were experiencing a sense of their lost and horrid sinfulness, turning to Christ for their only hope of salvation, and constituting congregations desiring the administration of baptism, spread from village to village, town to town, city to city, until the whole American frontier was seemingly a… Read More

The introduction of Fullerism into the American churches was from the first strenuously opposed. Beginning in 1788, the Minutes of the Philadelphia Association records an onslaught of one heresy after another. It may not have anything to do with this, but in each year that heresies were dealt with, the Association also recorded a “Plague,” referred to in history as the “Hessian Fly.” In 1788, the following query was submitted: “Whether a… Read More

“Let all things be done decently and in order.”(I Corinthians 14:40) The first thing we wish to note under this heading is that we refer to that group of the “baptized Churches of Christ” of the Predestinarian faith and Old School orders that are independent of the corresponding associations. They have a freedom to speak their minds as the Spirit gives them utterance, a freedom to go anywhere the Spirit leads them… Read More

An ordinance is a divine arrangement or institution (Greek: diatage). This writer is one of a very few people that believes one should follow what the Holy Spirit has instituted in His Church. That means that he believes there are four ordinances, rather than just two as held to by modern Baptists. They agree that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances. Some of them say that for it to be an… Read More

The phrase “decency and in order” is rather vague. There is no specificity given to explain just how to do that. While Paul was with the Churches, they could ask him. But after the apostles were gone, they were so to speak as a “man,” on their own. Paul wrote to one Church on this topic saying, “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now… Read More

The government, or constitution, of the baptized Churches of Christ: We might insert here a biblical principle. The government of the Church is “congregational.” That is, the “Church” determines what will or will not be done, and this is done by “unanimous consent,” and must have the Scriptures for the basis of their deliberation. These Churches do not go by “majority rule,” or Robert’s Parliamentary Rules of Order, as worldly societies do…. Read More

Observing the rapidity in which the greater portion fell from the doctrines of grace and New Testament order, one must ask: “How did this come to pass so quickly?” Were they not established in the faith of God’s elect? Did they not actually believe what they had so recently written in the Articles of their Faith for all men to read and understand? Did they understand the meaning of their own hand-written… Read More

The London Confession of Faith of 1644 ANNOTATION: We invite the reader to give attention to these dates: John Spilsbery established the first Church and congregation of “baptized Churches of Christ” holding to particular redemption in London in the year 1633. Eleven years later there were seven of these Churches, and in that year, 1644, they felt it advisable to write a Confession of their faith. Why? For all manner of slander… Read More

ANNOTATION: Reuben Ross preached the first Arminian, or Freewill sermon among Baptists near Port Royal, Tennessee in 1817. The Baptist Board of Foreign Missions had been set up on 1813-1815. During the same time, his brother, Martin Ross, introduced the call for missions in the Kehukee Baptist Association in North Caroline, from whence Reuban had come. The two events so closely joined together possibly is an explanation for the speed in which… Read More

The First Rising Opposition To The Board of Foreign and Domestic Missions ANNOTATION: We will here present a common sample of the letters the Baptist Board of Foreign And Domestic Missions sent out to all the Baptists’ associations in America, beginning in 1814. We must use Minutes of early associations that existed in 1814. For this reason, we have selected the historical note by Henry C. Vedder, the historian for the American… Read More

Public Address To The Baptist Society – By Daniel Parker, 1820 ANNOTATION: Almost ALL Missionary Baptists Historians (if they can be so classed), state that (1) Daniel Parker founded the Primitive or Old School Baptists, and (2) that Daniel Parker was an illiterate preacher. Both statements are typically as far from the truth as the doctrine they preach. First, we have already proven that there was a wide-spread and numerous collection of… Read More

Kehukee Baptist Declaration – 1826 ANNOTATION: Elder Rueben Ross had preached the first Arminian sermon among Baptists near Port Royal, Tennessee in 1817. He had come from the Kehukee Baptist Association in North Carolina and settled in Tennessee. Over in the East, his brother, Martin Ross, also in the Kehukee Association had been preaching up missions from the commencement of the New Divinity Missionary Movement in 1805. He naturally supported the establishment… Read More

The Black Rock Address – 1832 ANNOTATION: The action of the Kehukee, the most well-known and largest of the Southern Associations of Baptists, had a profound and stunning effect on the mission advocates on the one hand, and the “Old Divinity” churches on the other. The “non-fellowship” declaration severed all mission societies, benevolent societies, socialists and anarchist societies, and secret societies connection to the Baptist Church. Unlike the Baptist Board of Foreign… Read More

Mississippi Baptists’ Reason and Appeals – 1844 [In 1844, some of the churches composing the Mount Pisgah Baptist Association in central Mississippi withdrew from that fellowship and formed the Bethany Association. Both these associations still exit today. Some of the churches in the Mount Pisgah have united into a Southern Baptist affiliated association, while the Mount Pisgah remains a “missionary” association outside of the Mississippi Baptist State Convention. The Reasons and Appeals… Read More

The White River Regular Baptist Association of Indiana, 1844 Circular Letter Beloved Brethren, Wishing you health and salvation, and if anything more loving and charming can be experienced from the bowels of the Christian religion, we give all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation. The great Shepherd has been very mindful of His sheep many years past; and although they have been persecuted and even to death in almost… Read More