Essential Baptist Principles_™
As taught in the Holy Scriptures
November 1  2012

Selected Scripture
 

Order

We are instructed to: "let all things be done decently and in order." I Corinthians 14:40 The Apostle Paul expressed joy in seeing the Colossian Churches order. "For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you by the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ." We are obligated to withdraw from a brother that walketh disorderly: "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us." (2 Thessalonians 3:6) If we are to withdraw from a brother who walks disorderly, should not this apply to a Church which clearly departs from or adds too the doctrine and practices of the Scriptures?

 Our order is derived from the scriptures. Most if not all Primitive Baptist Abstract of principles includes the following: We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God and the only rule of faith and Practice. The doctrine and practice (or order) of a church has always been the identifying mark as to whether it is a true Church of Christ or not...

 I do believe the Primitive Baptist church which came through the 1830 Baptist split is the true Church of Christ but many today who use the name Primitive Baptist or not true Baptist. They use the name but they wear their own apparel. To determine who is wearing their own apparel; consider the fact that prior to the 1830 Baptist split the Baptist did not have Mission Societies, Worldly outreaches, Sunday Schools and/or Bible Classes, musical instruments in services, Men’s fellowship, Women’s fellowship, Church social retreats for the youth nor any other church sponsored society. No social order other than Christian Fellowship was ever practiced among them which compliments the scriptural worship pattern of Congregational singing, public prayer, and preaching by a God called man. Their doctrine did not embrace man as having any part in eternal salvation. Neither did they embrace Calvinism which teaches that all the Elect would hear and believe the gospel and persevere in that belief. They rejected the extreme doctrine which teaches that God predestinated all things both good and evil. Any Church that persists in any or all of these things has rejected the scriptural order of doctrine and practices. Elder Claude McKee

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