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Posted on March 19, 2010 - by Admin1
Face the Future
By Kevin Riggs
“At 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening, November 5, 1935, in Cofer’s Chapel Church, Nashville, Tennessee, the National Association of Free Will Baptists convened in its first session. After a lively devotional service of songs and prayer . . .the organization of the association was deferred until Wednesday afternoon in order to give all delegates ample time to arrive and take part.”1
Those are the opening paragraphs of the first minutes of the National Association of Free Will Baptists. (more…)
Posted on March 19, 2010 - by Admin1
What is a Free Will Baptist?
By Kevin Riggs
I was on the first intercollegiate basketball team at Free Will Baptist Bible College. As we traveled around the country we never knew how we were going to be received by the other school or described by the local newspaper. After all, very few people outside of denominational circles knew what a “Free Will Baptist” was. On one occasion, we went to Knoxville, TN, to play Johnson Bible College. The following day’s headline in the local paper read, “Free Wheel College Defeats Johnson.” On another occasion, we were “Freewill Baptist Barber College.” (more…)
Posted on March 19, 2010 - by Admin1
Who are Free Will Baptists?
By Kevin Riggs
As a fourth-generation Free Will Baptist minister, I have been asked to write a series of three articles about our denomination’s heritage. My intention is to answer three questions: (1) Who are we? (2) What are we? (3) Where are we going? (more…)
Posted on March 1, 2010 - by Admin2
The Free Will Baptist Logo
The logo of the Free Will Baptists incorporates four symbols used by the earliest communities in Christendom: the ship, the fish, the anchor, and the cross.
In the four corners of the ship’s sail, the symbols of earliest Christianity are enhanced by modern emblems of a vital, living faith – the Holy Bible, the Loaf & Cup, the Basin & Towel and Clasped Hands – the symbols of Free Will Baptists. (more…)
Posted on February 19, 2010 - by admin
History of Free Will Baptists
The Free Will Baptist denomination is a fellowship of evangelical believers united in extending the witness of Christ and the building of His Church throughout the world. The rise of Free Will Baptists can be traced to the influence of Baptists of Arminian persuasion who settled in the colonies from England. (more…)
Posted on February 18, 2010 - by admin
Church Covenant
Having given ourselves to God, by faith in Christ, and adopted the Word of God as our rule of faith and practice, we now give ourselves to one another by the will of God in this solemn covenant.
We promise, by His grace, to love and obey Him in all things, to avoid all appearance of evil, to abstain from all sinful amusements and unholy conformity to the world, from all sanction of the use and sale of intoxicating beverages, and to “provide things honest in the sight of all men.” (more…)
Posted on February 18, 2010 - by admin
Treatise
A Treatise of the Faith and Practices of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, Inc.
