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The Holiness Baptist Association is a holiness body of Christians with Baptist historical roots.
Holiness movement
In 19th century America, the Holiness movement developed out the "new measures" and teachings of
revivalist Charles Grandison Finney, and the Methodist emphasis of the Wesleyan teachings of holiness.
John Wesley taught that holiness, or Christian perfection, was a definite and instantaneous second work of
grace received by faith, and followed by gradual sanctification. Early in the 20th century, many in the
Holiness movement also embraced Pentecostalism, which equated the second work of grace with the
baptism of the Holy Spirit, whose outward sign was speaking in tongues. The following bodies have
primary roots in the Holiness movement and secondary roots in Pentecostalism.
In 1934, the Baptist Purity Association was formed by members excluded from the Holiness Baptist
Association for teaching and practicing the substitution of water for grape juice in the Lord's supper.
In 1977, discontented members withdrew and formed the Calvary Holiness Association.
According to historian Robert G. Gardner of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, these three Holiness
Baptist bodies currently have about 50 churches with about 1,582 members. Like many other Holiness
groups, they maintain strict standards of dress, require long hair for women and short hair for men, and
abstain from tobacco, intoxicating beverages, dancing provocatively, gambling, television, etc.
See also
Ohio Valley Association of the Christian Baptist Churches of God
References
A History of the Holiness Baptist Association of Georgia, by Charles Orville Walker
The Encyclopedia of American Religions: Vol. I, J. Gordon Melton, editor
Glenn Gohr, "William Jethro Walthall and the Holiness Baptist Churches of Southwestern
Arkansas", A/G Heritage (Fall 1992, Winter 1992-93)
Minutes, Little River Baptist Association, 1893
Minutes, Holiness Baptist Association, 1919
External links
Highways and Hedges Project - Part I: The Holiness Baptist Family (http://sacramentalprese
nttruths.blogspot.com/2012/03/highways-and-hedges-project-part-i.html)
History of the Piney Grove (Holiness Baptist) Church (http://www.pcfa.org/genealogy/PineyG
rove.html)
Holiness Baptists on Adherents.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20031009003759/http://ad
herents.com/Na/Na_307.html#1885)
Holiness Baptist Association website (https://www.holinessbaptist.com/)
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