The Reverend Frank R. Harrison

Frank R. Harrison is a graduate of Mount Olive College, Barton College, Southeastern Theological Seminary, and NC School of Pastoral Care at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. He served as chaplain of Mount Olive College from 1971–2002 and pastor of Long Ridge FWB Church, Duplin County. He is a member of the Cape Fear Conference.

The Committal

The Reverend Frank R. Harrison
10/01/2011 - 8:00am

Let us hear the word of God in keeping with the promises of John and the Book of Revelation:

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

A Brief History of the Convention of Original Free Will Baptists

The Reverend Frank R. Harrison
10/01/2011 - 8:00am

The history and development of the current Convention of Original Free Will Baptists has its roots and beginnings before the 1900s in the Union Conference, which was organized at Pine Level, February 3, 1891. The minutes of the first session of this conference refers to itself as the “Union Conference of the Western and Cape Fear Conferences of Original Free Will Baptists,” according to Dr. Floyd B. Cherry, in his history of the Original Free Will Baptist Church entitled An Introduction to Original Free Will Baptists (Free Will Baptist Press 43–44).

The Campbellite Crisis

The Reverend Frank R. Harrison
06/01/2011 - 8:00am

The “Campbellite Crisis” has its roots and beginnings in 1809 with Thomas Campbell of Brush Run, Pennsylvania, when he published his call for all Christians “to strive for brotherly union under the leadership of Christ, and the sheer efficiency of the Scriptures as an adequate guide.” That same year, Alexander Campbell, son of Thomas Campbell, arrived from Scotland and became a champion of these beliefs. Alexander started a paper called The Christian Baptists in 1823 and in 1826 the paper appeared in North Carolina.