Northern Virginia Primitive Baptist Church

Here follows an excerpt from the church's website:

The Northern Virginia Primitive Baptist Church was founded on September 26, 1975, with 17 members. The church was originally sponsored by the Statesboro Primitive Baptist Church in Statesboro, GA. Four of our charter members remain on the membership roll today. We have had six pastors: Elder Loren Wilson, Elder Hoyt B. Simms, Elder John B. Purser, Elder Emerson Proctor, Elder Craig Campbell, and currently Elder Andrew Tucker.

After spending our first 20 years in a rented facility and then in a renovated house, we moved into our current sanctuary at 9640 Blake Lane, Fairfax, VA in September of 1996. Our congregation has been as diverse as the area in which it was founded, including families from India, Korea, The Philippines, China, Liberia, Ghana, Peru, Taiwan, Colombia, as well as families from throughout the United States.

We welcome visitors as we strive to conduct a worship service that is Biblical in content: positive, upbeat, and joyful in nature; friendly, affectionate, and gracious in spirit; and relational, relevant, and reverent in approach.

Why the name “Primitive Baptist”?
Did you know the first definition of “primitive” in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary states that the word is a synonym for “original”?

People are often surprised to learn that a church named “Primitive Baptist” is not backward thinking or archaic. Instead, the term “primitive” was meant to indicate the church’s desire to remain true to the original, or “primitive” doctrines found within the scriptures. The Northern Virginia Primitive Baptist Church holds to the London Baptist Confession of Faith, which was adopted in 1689.

At NOVA PBC, we maintain the simple practice and doctrine of the New Testament, despite the changing values and customs around us. We are a church that holds fast to the ancient faith of Biblical Christianity, and our desire is to grow and go forward in the Lord’s service.

Our beliefs are based on the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.

We believe in one true and living God:
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; that these three are One, and are harmoniously equal in infinite power, justice, holiness, mercy, love, and truth.

Genesis 1:2 and 26, Isaiah 43:10-11, Isaiah 44:6, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 John 5:7

We believe the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the word of God,
inspired and inerrant, and the only rule of faith and practice.

2 Chronicles 34:21, Isaiah 40:21, Romans 15:4, 2 Timothy 3:16-17

We believe in the total depravity of the entire human family,
which is corrupted and defiled in body, soul, intellect, and will, and that man is unable to recover himself from his lost and ruined state.

Genesis 6:5, John 5:40, Romans 3:10-18, Ephesians 2:1-3

We believe in particular, eternal, and unconditional election;
the new birth, which is the effectual calling of the elect; and the final preservation of the saints.

Isaiah 45:4, John 3:3-5, John 15:16, Romans 8:30-39, Romans 9:9-13, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 2:1

We believe that God predestinated all His elect subjects
unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, which was wholly according to the good pleasure of His own will, and for the praise of His marvelous grace.

Acts 2:23, Romans 8:29-30, Ephesians 1:5-11

We believe Jesus Christ to be the only begotten Son of God,
the only Savior and Redeemer, and the only Mediator between God and man.

Matthew 1:21, John 3:16, Galatians 4:4-5, 1 Timothy 2:5

We believe that redemption is by God’s grace alone
through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that sinners are justified before God only through the imputed righteousness of Christ.

Romans 3:24, Romans 5:9, Ephesians 2:8

We believe that all who are called of God are under obligation to do good works
and that there is great reward in the keeping of His commandments.

Deuteronomy 7:12-13, Matthew 5:16, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Titus 3:8

We believe that Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances of the Church of Jesus Christ,
and that the washing of the saint’s feet is an example to be kept, that true believers in Christ are the only subjects fit for baptism, and that the only water baptism taught or recognized in the Bible is immersion.

John 4:1-2, Mark 16:15, Acts 2:38, Acts 8:36-39, Luke 22:14-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-24, John 13:1-7, 2 John 1:10-11, Hebrews 13:10, Romans 6:1-11

We believe that the bodies of all men will be resurrected from the grave,
that the joys of the righteous will be eternal, and that the punishment of the wicked will be everlasting.

John 5:28-29, 1 Corinthians 15:12-19, Revelation 20:4, Daniel 7:27

We believe that the Church of God is the only ecclesiastical body on earth,
subject alone to God for all her acts, and that her form of government is congregational, with each member having an equal voice in all her acts.

Acts 15:22, Ephesians 1:22, Ephesians 6:4, 1 Peter 5:3