039 Primitive Baptists, Hardshell Anti-Missions, and what a dying church might teach us

This week we visited an old-school Primitive Baptist church.  We talk about the anti-missions Calvinist history of the Primitive Baptist sect and the reason you don't hear about them much nowadays.  We finally break down TULIP so you can understand it, sort of (and you'll either hate TULIP or hate our explanation of it...sorry Presbyterian friends).  We take you through the idiosyncrasies of Primitive Old-School worship, a capella singing, sing-song preaching, footwashing, and handshaking.  Finally, we talk about what churches of all stripes fear--death and/or irrelevance...and we discuss how the physical picture we saw in just one little church full of faithful people might be a prophetic call for the rest of us to ask if what we are doing as religious people is really mattering.  After all, the church has always needed a little fresh wind now and again.For a more OFFICIAL view of Primitive Baptists, visit one local congregation's website, complete with doctrinal and practical information at www.pb.org/