The Baptist Split Of 1832

Tyndale,

I have heard some hard to believe things, but

I did not think that all Baptists have believed the same thing since the first ones left Holland and went back to England ...

In Christ,

 

We have a good example of the missions split in our area. One of the sister churches (United Baptist) has a Missionary Baptist church across the highway and a Primitive Baptist (from which it split) down the road. I believe both these buildings stay vacant almost all the time, though.

J.M. Peck was involved in our association in the beginning (1816) but then he wasn't involved a few years later. When we took the name 'United Baptist' back around 1829, some members left because that meant to them we weren't missionary nor primitive. History books usually label us antimissionary.

 

FWIW, from reading local history and talking to the ol' timers over the years, it was by far the 'Campbellite movement' that was the most violent and caused the most damage to the Baptists here in Central KY. OTOH, the 'missions split', IN THIS AREA, was more of a peaceable drifting apart over time, with the older generation sharing sanctuaries with the younger, and each attending one another's meetings.

 

My impression from reading of the schism is that the Primitives and other so-called "hardshell Baptists" is that they rejected all forms of outreach, evangelism, preaching, teaching to and praying for the unsaved, etc. I understand from talking to some Primitives on here is that these "hardshell" churches continue to believe the same, that evangelistic outreach is unbiblical.

I'd leave a church like that, too.

 

Primatives have been known to be anti-evangelism for a long long time.

 

thank you. you are not far from the truth.

 

It is PrimItives. Not PrimAtives.
Depends on why you evangelize.
if it is for the purpose of getting people saved TO heaven, you can have it all.
If it is for the purpose of preaching the gospel to those who know it best, and love it, and have an appreciation for it, then that's different.