Our Worship
Our services are centered on worship that glorifies God and shapes His people. Through the preaching of God’s Word, prayer, and singing, we gather to honor the Lord together. Worship is at the heart of who we are as God’s people.
About Trinity Church
"I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth." 1 Timothy 3:15
Reformed and Evangelical
At Trinity Church we believe that the sovereignty of God in salvation is glad news. In addition to what we call “sunny Calvinism,” we believe in the covenantal nature of the church and the ecumenical and reformed creeds (see Statement of Faith). We are also evangelical, which means that we earnestly desire, pray for, and labor to see God’s mercy revive and renew the face of the earth so that every nation, tribe, tongue, and people will bow in cheerful obedience to Jesus the Lord of all.
Emphasis on Biblical Families
As the most basic unit in church and society, the family can hardly be overemphasized. We seek to assist and equip parents—and especially fathers—to rule well in their homes. We desire to see Christ’s reign expand into every home so that He is everywhere extolled, obeyed, and loved, and the world blessed.
Covenant Theology
All of life is covenantal. In its simplest terms, a covenant is a formal, defined relationship. Marriage is a covenantal bond; the family is a covenantal unit; the church and the government are covenantal bodies. In every covenant the parties have obligations and privileges. Blessings come for fulfilling these, while curses follow the one who ignores or rejects them. By God’s grace, our church endeavors to trace out and to live the implications of these covenantal bonds seeking to be good citizens of city, state, country, family, and church, seeking to establish the grace of the Kingdom of Jesus in all of life.
Optimistic Eschatology
We believe "the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea" (Isaiah 11:9). This grand hope is not accomplished through political intrigue or Christian activism, but through the bold proclamation of the Word of God in the power of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God in Jesus Christ. God is undoing the sin of the world like a man patiently bringing a suffering and dying tree back to full health. God loves to work quietly, slowly and in unexpected ways to confound the wise with His foolishness.
Expository Preaching
The Apostle Paul sought to proclaim Christ, declaring the whole counsel of God, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom so that the people of God might grow up into the fullness of Christ. Following his lead, we, too, strive after the same. This is why our normal, but not exclusive, mode of preaching is consecutive, verse-by-verse exposition.
Church Community
Members of Trinity Church covenant together under God to encourage one another to love God and each other, seeking to edify one another by using their gifts; assisting one another by providing for needs; and together serving the church and the city.
Elders
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church. Under Him, and in submission to His word, our church is governed by men bearing the office of elder. These elders make up the Session of Elders, the ruling body of Trinity Church.
“Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 1:13
Statement of Faith
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has a duty to preserve the faith “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3) as well as to preach the whole counsel of God (2 Tim 4:1,2). Throughout history God’s people have fulfilled this imperative by writing creeds, statements of faith, to summarize the most important elements of biblical doctrine.
Among these historic creeds, we subscribe to the ecumenical creeds including the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed (c. AD 381), and the Definition of Chalcedon (c. AD 451). In addition, our formal doctrinal statement is the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) – with a few exceptions. Because the Westminster Confession is so extensive, we have also adopted an Evangelical Statement (adapted from the National Association of Evangelicals) which summarizes some of our central convictions.
Though we subscribe robustly to these creeds, the Scriptures themselves are our final and infallible authority for both faith and practice.
The Ecumenical Creeds
Here at Trinity we hold to these creeds and regularly recite and affirm them throughout the year together as part of our Lord’s Day liturgy.
The Apostles’ Creed
“We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin, Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into Hades; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. We believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic* church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.”
* ‘catholic’, meaning universal, not Roman CatholicThe Nicene Creed (c. AD 381)
“We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the virgin, Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures, and ascended into Heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. And we believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the Prophets. And we believe in one holy, catholic* and apostolic Church; acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.”
* ‘catholic’, meaning universal, not Roman CatholicThe Definition of Chalcedon (c. AD 451)
“Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the fathers has handed down to us.”
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