Corresponding Letter of the Mississippi River Association of Tennessee - October 1997
"We believe that each sister church has a right, as far as her internal affairs are concerned, and as long as she is recognized as a sister church, to have her official work recognized by all who claim to be of our faith and order. Therefore we ought not to use in our pulpit those among us whose practice is inconsistent with the above proposition. Some of the most flagrant violators being:
1...Those who have taken into their membership excluded members from sister churches.
2...Those who recognize the official work of excluded members of sister churches, such as baptisms and presbyteries.
3...Those who accept appointments at churches that have been excluded from the fellowship of our sister associations without the approval of those sister churches who are responsible for that action.
4...Those preachers who have been excluded from our sister churches, or that have been declared to be in disorder by our sister churches.
5...Those who use such in their pulpits.
Not only do these aforementioned inconsistent practices encourage those who are in disorder, they also undermine the order, government, and authority of those churches and associations who have found it necessary to act in the exclusion of those who were found to be in disorder. It also confuses those among us whose understanding and knowledge are still in development, as well as those who may be weak in the faith, and it contributes to confusion and disorder.
We believe these things to be self-evident and have ever been the practice of true, Old-Line Primitive Baptist."
Collierville and Mt. Pisgah Churches
Dropped from Fellowship
Friday, October 1, 1999.
Item 3. By motion, second, and unanimous vote, dropped fellowship with Collierville and Mt. Pisgah Churches.
(Minutes of the Mississippi River Association, 1999.)
Published on the PB Library Forum. 2002.
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