MISSION AND DOCTRINE
Trinity Baptist Church exists to proclaim Christ and make disciples of those who claim Christ, all for the glory of Christ.
At Trinity, you will find a family of believers who value God’s sovereign grace and God’s perfect word. These values are expressed in our commitment to God's Word, extravagant grace, missions, prayer, and discipleship. As Paul wrote in Colossians 1:28, our desire is to present everyone complete in Christ by pointing everyone to the sufficiency of Christ.
OUR PRIORITIES:
We will proclaim Christ by speaking and living the gospel.
We will make disciples who live like Jesus, love like Jesus, and teach others to be like Jesus.
Come join us on the journey!
"Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ." Colossians 1:28
Below is an explanation of our doctrinal distinctives. For a more in-depth explanation of our beliefs, we encourage you to read The Baptist Faith & Message 2000.
1. The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
Psalm 19:7-10; Psalm 119:11,89,110; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2
2. God
There is one and only one living and true God. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
Deuteronomy 6:4; John 1:1-18; Acts. 5:3-4
3. Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God.
Genesis 1:26-30; Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:1-3
4. Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
Romans 1:16-17, 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 John 2:3
5. God's Purpose of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man, and comprehends all the means in connection with the end. It is the glorious display of God's sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility.
All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.
Genesis 12:1-3; Jeremiah 31:31ff; John 10:27-29; Ephesians 2:1-10
6. The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Acts 2:41-42, 47; 1 Timothy 3:1-15; Hebrews 11:39-40; Revelation 21:2-3
7. Last Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Matthew 25:31-46; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:1-22:13