Jerry Vines Blog
My church going started at Beulah Baptist Church, as a five-week-old. But, my church became Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carrollton, Georgia, where I was saved and baptized at the age of nine.
The full name of the church was Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church. That was to distinguish it from two other kinds of Baptist churches. Primitive Baptists didn't believe in Sunday School, an educated ministry and its foundational position was that of Calvinism. They didn't believe in foreign missionary work.
The Streaky Head Baptists were somewhere in between the Missionary and Primitive Baptist churches. They weren't sure whether they fit in the missionary or primitive category. Thus, they were streaky headed. My home church fell solidly in the missionary category.
More later.
Bill Donaldson
March 17, 2009 @ 11:59 PMJerry, I remember the streaky head baptist in Buchanan, Ga. in the 50 & 60's.
They were good people, but off in their theogy a little. They believe in long funeral service in july in no air churcher.
Bill