We find in the Bible that the New Testament churches followed very simple practices. It is our goal to preserve that simplicity in our form of worship.
We Include the Entire Family
When gathered together to worship God and hear the preaching of God’s word, we make no distinction between single or married; with children or without; young or old. God has no respect of persons, but views us all as His children and desires our united praise and adoration.
Entire families sit together in our worship services. Even babes in arms are welcome in our sanctuary. By following this pattern, parents and children hear the same lessons, taught by men called of God to the work of ministry and ordained with approval of the congregation.
We Sing As One Body
The New Testament teaches that our bodies are temples in which God’s Holy Spirit dwells. The Old Testament form of temple worship merely pointed toward this hidden truth, now revealed. Accordingly, the form of worship service practiced by the first-century church as recorded in Acts and the epistles exchanged the elaborate pageantry of temple worship for unadorned simplicity.
Musical instruments rightly used serve to stir our senses and heighten our emotions. They have sounded joyously in our sanctuary for many a wedding. Yet when the time comes to enter into a worship service, musical instruments are laid aside. Our worship services begin with a capella singing, and every member of the congregation is encouraged to take part. Like every other aspect of New Testament worship, “in Spirit and in truth” (Jon 4:23), the song service reflects the simplicity we find when we contemplate the finished work of Christ.
Our Ordinances are Baptism and Communion
Jesus Christ gave the church two formal functions: baptism and communion. We practice baptism of professing believers by full immersion. We welcome all baptized members of the Primitive Baptist church to take part in the Lord’s Supper: wine and unleavened bread, followed by the ceremonial washing of feet. We practice communion service in the spring and fall of each year.
Our Bible is the Authorized King James Version
Our Bible is the version authorized by King James of England and published in 1611. We might present many excellent arguments in favor of its textual basis, quality of scholarship, and sheer literary beauty. Without diminishing these truths, we simply find no other translation whose history of acceptance and use among the English-speaking saints concords better with the biblical precept that God’s revealed word, and the true faith and practice it documents, were delivered but once and will always be preserved.