Brother Kenny, a contributor of this blog, and a dear friend and brother in the Lord, has passed away. I found out today by doing an Internet search. I did that because I sent him an e-mail a week ago and had not heard back from him and was wondering why. I discovered that he passed away on April 7th at the age of 63. I am deeply saddened by his passing. Though we disagreed on some things dealing with salvation, I being a Calvinist and he was not (although he would be considered a moderate Calvinist since he did not believe a child of God could lose his salvation) yet we still had great fellowship together. He was a church historian, especially of Baptist history. We shared many songs. He would send me songs and I would send some to him. He was a good singer. We would also talk on the telephone and we would share thoughts on bible subjects. He helped me to find other groups who called themselves "Primitive Baptists" who were not Hardshell at all, being moderate Calvinists, such as the Eastern Association of Primitive Baptists.
A few years ago he began to pastor a church that was once a "Primitive" or "Hardshell" Baptist church that saw the errors of Hardshellism and Hyper Calvinism and became simply a Baptist church. Brother Kenny said that I was a big influence on the members of this church leaving Hyper Calvinism.
The above is a picture of him as appears on his obituary, which you can read (here). That is his son with him, his only child. He lived in Conyers, Georgia and was active in the organization "Historic Rural Churches of Georgia." I have many e-mails saved in my e-mail box from brother Kenny. I don't know what was his cause of death, but I do know that he had been having some health issues the last couple years.
I am going to miss him deeply. But, I know he is with the Lord Jesus Christ "which is far better."
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