Membership Records of the Senter Primitive Baptist Church
1829—1924
Nathan’s Creek, Ashe County, North Carolina
The Baptist Church of Christ at Senter Meeting House was constituted in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine and fourteen members given up from the different churches to wit:
From Piney Creek:
James Gentry
Jane McMillan
Elizabeth Smith
John Griffith
Elizabeth Griffith
John Poe
Nancy Poe
From Silas Creek Church
Susannah Turner
From Fox Creek Church
Sarah Gentry
From Beaver Creek Church
Charles Waddle
Elizabeth Waddle
From Cranberry Church
Zachariah Baker
Sarah Baker
The Presbytery called for and these brethern examined and found orthodox in the principle of the gospel and set apart as a church of Christ to hold their own kees (sic).
By the Presbytery
Elder Drury Senter
Elder Henry Vanover
Abstract of Baptist Principles
- We believe in one true and living God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost and that these three are one.
- We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the words of God and the only rule of faith and practice.
- We believe in the doctrine of election by Grace.
- We believe in the doctrine of Original Sin, and in man’s impotency to recover himself from the fallen state he is in by nature by his own free will or ability.
- We believe that sinners are called, converted, regenerated, and sanctified by the Holy spirit and that all who are thus regenerated or born again by the Spirit of God shall never fall finally away.
- We believe that sinners are justified in the sight of God only by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.
- We believe that Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances of Jesus Christ and that true believers are the subjects of these ordinances and we believe that the true mode of Baptism is by immersion.
- We believe in the resurrection and a general judgment and that the joys of the righteous and the torments of the wicked will be eternal.
- We believe that no minister has a right to administer the ordinances except such as are regularly called and come under the hands of the presbytery.