Flint River Primitive Baptist Church was the first organized church in Alabama, established on Oct. 2, 1808, upon the doctrine of salvation by grace, as attested by her Articles of Faith. Its first building was erected 1 mi. N.E. The church’s Articles of Faith affirm belief in one true and living God, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God and the only rule of faith and practice; in election, original sin, and man’s inability to recover himself from his fallen state by his own free will and ability; in justification only by the imputed righteousness of Christ; in God’s elect being called, converted, regenerated, and sanctified by the Holy Ghost; in the saints’ perseverance in grace; in baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and washing the saints feet as ordinances of Jesus Christ, with true believers as their only subjects and immersion as the true mode of baptism; in the resurrection of the dead and a general judgment; in the eternal punishment of the wicked and the eternal joys of the righteous; and in restricting ordinance administration and communion to those regularly baptized according to this faith and practice, while declaring that any claiming the church or her birthright without holding fast to this faith and practice are impostors.