Old Missionary Baptists Associations
The Old Missionary Baptist Associations are considered Primitivistic (the belief that less technologically dependent cultures and ways of living are inherently better than more technologically dependent ones) sects of the Baptist church. They are known by different names such as Old Time Missionary Baptist and the Old Fashioned Missionary Baptist and are within the Landmark Missionary Baptists Movement which has rejected most progressive methods of life and worship.
The Old Missionary Baptist Associations are moderately Calvinistic, embracing general atonement, total depravity, and eternal security. They embrace the New Hampshire Confession of Faith which was drawn up by the Reverend John Newton Brown from New Hampshire in 1833 and accepted by the Baptist New Hampshire Convention.
The Old Missionary Baptist Associations embrace home and foreign mission work through direct church effort. They do reject the authority of a missionary board or conventions, and everything dealing with their organization is on the directed at the local level.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations hold the End Times doctrine of a thousand year period of peace on earth that that will follow the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They believe Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth, and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ. They believe each church is an independent, self-governing body. They believe no other ecclesiastical body may have authority over them. They believe Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to the New Testament Churches only.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations only have two divinely appointed offices in the church. The position of pastors and deacons are to be filled by qualified men. They believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government.
History
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations can trace their roots to the United Baptists when they chose to merge with either the Regular Baptists or the Separate Baptists. They were part of the Southern Baptist convention at one time, however some dropped out of the Southern Baptist convention in the last part of the 19th century.
The Old Missionary Baptists Association believed there was a conversion using the head, and not the heart. They are connected in fellowship with some of the United Baptist churches which have similar faith and practice.
Belief
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all sufficient rule of faith and practice. They believe in the Biblical book of Genesis for the account of Creation. The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believes the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired. They believe God is the author and salvation is the end.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe in the personal triune God who is in the form of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. They believe they are equal in divine perfection.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ. They believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. They believe in the suffering and death of Jesus Christ and that Jesus was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe. They believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His church. They believe the miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. They believe faith, hope and love are the vital spiritual gift of today. They believe the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures and indwells every believer.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe sinners are saved through grace through faith in Jesus Christ. They believe all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and will not perish. They believe God considers believers as His children, and chastises the disobedient. They believe God rewards the obedient and punishes the disobedient.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe sanctification is the process which by the will of God makes man partakers of His holiness. They believe it is a progressive work started in regeneration and carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit, who seals and comforts.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe the perseverance of Saints is only the real believers who endure unto the end and are attached to Christ. They believe there is a special Providence that watches over their welfare and are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe in two ordinances. Baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They believe baptism should be administered by the authority of a New Testament church. They Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance and is restricted to the members of the church.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe justification is a blessing which Christ secures to those who believe in Him. They believe justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life. They believe justification is not from any works of righteousness which someone does, but solely through faith in the Redeemer’s blood.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event in the Gentile age. They believe this occurrence includes the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous should enter into the heaven age.
The Old Missionary Baptists Associations believe satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and of man. They believe satan to be an unholy god of this world. They believe his final destination is the eternal lake of fire.
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Holstein, Joanne “Old Missionary Baptists Associations:.” Becker Bible Studies Library Jan 2006.<https://guidedbiblestudies.com/?p=2781,>.
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Holstein, Joanne (2006, January) “Old Missionary Baptists Associations:.” Becker Bible Studies Library. Retrieved from https://guidedbiblestudies.com/?p=2781,.
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Holstein, Joanne (2006) “Old Missionary Baptists Associations:.” Becker Bible Studies Library (January), https://guidedbiblestudies.com/?p=2781, (accessed).
