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The Lord's Baptist Church
11102 Yakima Avenue South
Tacoma, WA. 98444
Pastor: Larry J. Killion
For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Join us in worshiping God in Spirit and in Truth at 11102 Yakima Avenue South.
SERVICE TIMES:
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Sunday School: 10:00AM
Morning Worship: 11:00AM
Noon Meal: 12:30PM
Afternoon Service: 1:30PM
Wednesday Prayer Time: 7:00PM
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Latest News:
(June 14, 2015)
Sunday School Bible Study: 10AM "The Bride of Christ. c" Jim Turner audio
Worship Service: 11AM "Enmity." by Pastor. audio
Afternoon Service:
1:30PM We had our regular monthly business meeting. Pastor read from
John Chapter 20 and we sang a song and closed in prayer. We postponed
the observance of the Lord's Supper until the last Sunday in June when
we will have an out of State member here for a visit with us.
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13 in attendance. Pray
for Brother Lloyd dealing with stage 4 cancer. Pray for Brother
Turner as he is scheduled for surgery to remove some carcinoma from his
nose and plastic surgery on June 22 & 24 (his birthday). Praying
for Penny's daughter Rose with final stages of cancer. Congratulations
to Laura Russell and Abby Russell on GRADUATION from UW @ Tacoma and
Western WA in Bellingham. WE are proud of you!
We heard good reports on the 2015 Bible Conference at Home Baptist Church in Mt. Morris, Michigan. Here are the audio clips.
To see more on the trip to Ireland click here.
Pastor Killion has 4 books published by Xlibris POD Publishing.
The 2nd is called "The Thessalonian Doctrine." Take a LOOK
The 3rd is The Landmark Edition of the New Testament. Click Here .
The 4th is called "Distinctive Doctrine." Click Here.
Our Baptist Heritage
The Lord's Baptist Church was organized by Elder Larry
Killion from the South Park Missionary Baptist Church on January 26,
1980 in Tacoma, Washington. (see organization minutes of TLBC)
The South Park Missionary Baptist Church was organized by Elder Glen
Tweet from the Bryan Station Baptist Church on July 4, 1957 in Seattle,
Washington. (see organization minutes of SPMBC)
The Bryan Station Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky was organized on
April 15, 1786 by Elder Lewis Craig from "Craig's Church" also known as
"The Traveling Church" which moved to Kentucky territory from
Spotsylvania, Virginia. (see ECHOS FROM GLORY a Concise History Of The
Bryan Station Baptist Church p.5)
The Traveling Church was organized as a Baptist Church on November 20,
1767 between the James and the Rappahanack rivers by Elders James Read,
Sammuel Harris, and Dutton Lane.(see A History of the Baptists by John
T. Christian p. 289 & 290 and History of the Baptists in Virginia by
Semple p. 23)
Read, Harris and Lane were from the Dan River Baptist Church (History of
the Baptists in Virginia by Semple p.17 & 65) which came from
Abbott's Creek Baptist Church Pastored by Daniel Marshall (History of
the Baptists in Virginia by Semple p.16) who came from Sandy Creek
Baptist Church.
Sandy Creek Baptist Church of Guilford county, North Carolina, was
organized with 16 charter members on November 22, 1755 by Elders D.
Marshall and Shubal Stearns. (History of the Baptists in Virginia by
Semple p. 14)
Sandy Creek came out of the Opeckon Baptist Church in Berkeley county,
Virginia (History of the Baptists in Virginia by Semple p. 13). Other
spellings for this church are Opequon and Opekon. She was reorganized by
certain ministers of the Philadelphia Baptist Association in 1751 upon
the Calvinistic plan, sifting out the chaff and retaining the supposed
good seed according to the record.
From 1751 on, the Opekon Baptist Church was connected with the
Philadelphia Baptist Association of churches and was officially received
into the association October 8, 1754.(Minutes of the Philadelphia
Baptist Association From 1707 to 1807 p. 71) The churches in this
association were all of like faith and order and recognized each other
as true New Testament churches. They did not recognize other
denominations as true churches. Elder Abel Morgan was one of the
messengers at the annual meeting when Opekon was received into the
Association. Morgan came from the Welsh Tract Baptist Church in
Newcastle county, Delaware (p.15) which was organized with 16 members at
Pembrokeshire, South Wales in June of 1701 and sailed together to
Philadelphia arriving September 8, 1701.
The charter members of the Welsh Tract Church, for example, Pastor
Thomas Griffiths, came from the church at Rhydwilim which was called
anabaptist by their enemies but they felt unjustly so because theirs was
the only true kind of baptism. (History of the Welsh Baptists by Davis
p.72)
The Anabaptist church at Rhydwilim associated with the Particular
Baptists of Wales and England and was instrumental in publishing the
1689 London Confession of Faith which was also adopted by the
Philadelphia Baptist Association in 1742. (The American Baptist Heritage
In Wales by Joshua Thomas p.93 & 94, and History of the Welsh
Baptists by Davis p.188)
The first Association meeting of these old time Baptist ministers to
meet after the reformation was in 1653. Though the records are lost,
men like Dyfrig, Illtyd, and Dynawt no doubt had their meetings long
before Austin's slaughter of Welsh Baptists for the cause of Popery in
AD600. Before AD600, believer's immersion was the only mode recognized
in the British Isles as the baptism of the New Testament. (History of
the Welsh Baptists by Davis p.187, 14 and 15)
These great forefathers of the faith have much in common with their
brethren in the Valley's of the Piedmont and the very first of them to
begin assembling themselves together as churches of the Lord Jesus
Christ came to Wales shortly after AD63 as result of the Apostle Paul's
ministry in Rome. The Welsh Baptists were not Protestant rejects of the
Roman Catholic Church or separatists from the Church of England.
(History of the Welsh Baptists by Davis p.7, 6,17,20,21 and Acts 28:17,28-31 and II Tim 4:21)
The
Apostle Paul was taught directly by the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ
and was sent out as a foreign missionary from the church in Antioch
Syria. (Acts 13:1-3, Gal 1:15-21, 2Cor 12:1-5) The church in Antioch Syria was constituted by baptized believers out of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 8:1 & 4) and had an authoritative connection to the church in Jerusalem. (Acts 15:1-4, 22-31)
Larry J. Killion
Thus
we have seen a link by link connection of New Testament churches in our
heritage all the way back to the Apostles and Christ in the New
Testament.
The
Old Particular Baptists of Wales and England were often scattered by
their enemies and reorganized in secret only to flourish again depending
on the intensity of their persecution and the out pouring of the Holy
Spirit. Their writings and records were always destroyed by their
persecutors. Many who were led away by the teaching of infant baptism
were brought back to the religion of their forefathers and dipped in the
River Allen only 25 miles distant from Hill Cliffe. (History of the
Baptist Church at Hill Cliffe by Kenworthy p.24)
The Hill Cliffe Church, also known as Lollards, is believed to be connected with the ancient Waldensians.
Note:
Earlier we posted another church history at this point with a disclaimer
that we were not able to validate the references in it. We have now
removed it due to the fact that some have chosen to ignore our
disclaimer and accuse us as liars for posting bogus historical
references.
The
fact of the matter is that Christ organized His church during His
earthly ministry. He gave it and it alone the Great Commission. He
empowered it once and for all in New Testament times to do the work of
the Great Commission. Members of the very first church in Jerusalem
were dispersed to various other places and fitly framed local visible
assemblies of scripturally baptized believers were organized in those
locations with like faith and order as the church that they came from.
They in turn organized others like themselves. This is the New
Testament Pattern and it is in harmony with the biblical principle of
"like begets like". It has worked from New Testament times all the way
down to today. There is no need for a new formula for church
organization.
Some
of our earlier churches went into error about AD251. They broke
fellowship with the pure churches and eventually evolved into the modern
day universal hierarchy heresy. No true churches have ever identified
with this movement in any way. It was this organization that martyred
millions of members of true churches over the centuries for not
recognizing their self-claimed authority. See The Trail of Blood.
The so-called reformers have the same hatred for true churches and I
fear they are attempting to attack them now from within with a new
"Pop-up Church" theory that ridicules authoritative connection to a
sound church for proper organization. If you come from nothing you have
no more authority than the pompous papists. I plead with my beloved
Baptist brethren that are leaning this way. Please do not depart from
us. Jesus is coming soon! LJK
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