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Messages: 1 - 4 (18 total)
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irony_optional
1/28/2006 8:33 PM
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Any Freewaill Baptists here? Especially from the Appalachian region. I'm curious about your beliefs and practices.
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slash_ky
2/1/2006 3:47 PM
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I was raised Freewill Baptist (I lean towards a more liberal denom now...the SBC..lol), and I'm from Johnson County, Kentucky (same county as Loretta Lynn)
What exactly would you like to know?
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PeggyMc2
2/1/2006 4:15 PM
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I am SBC, but some of my relatives up in the Hills go to Freewill Churches. I have visited. They are not part of any organized denomonation. They make up their own rules and tend to be VERY Strict and Judgemental.
example.....No mixed swimming, Rules rules Rules.
OH HOW I THANK MY GOD FOR MY BIG OLE SB CHURCH.
LOL
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slash_ky
2/1/2006 10:33 PM
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I wrote a graduate school sociology paper on this, so I can go on...but I'll be brief. In Kentucky and West Virgina, the Freewill Baptist church did not spring out of either the northern or southern branches of the national denomination, but rather from splits with the United and Old Regular Baptist Churches, (hyper-calvinistic and ultra-traditional denominations which believe, among other things, that they are the only ones going to heaven, no instrumental music can be used, all songs must be "lined" and sound like Ralph Stanley, men and women must sit on separate sides of the church, and all preachers must use a style of projection that resembles singing....with a lot of "ha's" in between breaths and holding a note on every fourth line of the sermon, and refusal to pay a pastor) over open communion, which the Free Will founders were excommunicated from for advocating. They quickly found a home in the Randall (northern) branch of the Freewill Baptist Church, but brought a lot of their United/Old Regular peculiarities with them.
The Eastern Kentucky Freewills remained in the denomination despite the 1913 merger with the Northern Baptist Convention to form the American Baptist Church (USA), the Appalachian Freewills united with the Palmer (Southern) Freewill Church to form the current National Association. While Free Will's in East KY are more tempered, and several generations removed, many of United Baptist pecularities (the preaching style, the reluctance to pay a pastor of a church) stayed...and although they fade with each generation, they still hold a sway.
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