Trinity Presbyterian Church

Our Beliefs

Our beliefs are not new.  They are as old as the Bible itself.  They can be traced back to the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century.  The primary standard for the church, that by which it measures its life and ministry, is the Bible, the Word of God.  The secondary standards of the church are the historic seventeenth century doctrinal statements, the Westminster Confession of Faith and its companion documents, the Westminster Larger Catechism and  Shorter Catechism.

The Bible is more than a collection of moral teachings or a handbook on theology.  It is the history of the unfolding and establishment of God's kingdom.  Thus our teaching and preaching show how the Bible, from beginning to end, points us to Jesus Christ, who inaugurated the kingdom of God by his death and resurrection in our place.  By nature we are dead in sin.  But the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, has loved us and has drawn us to himself.  We hold to the historic Reformed faith.  We believe in:

Scripture Alone

We believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of the living and true God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.  The Bible is God's complete, final, and sufficient revelation to us.  To listen to an adult Sunday School class on the authority of Scripture, "God's Word and the Word of Men," dealing with the relationship between the divine and human aspects of the Bible, click here (MP 3 file, 4.4 MB), and the handout.

Faith Alone

We believe that the only way sinners can draw near to a holy God is to have their sins pardoned and receive the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.  Not even the best of our works can merit this.  Justification is by faith alone. As the Westminster Confession of Faith puts it (Chapter 11, Section 2): "Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification: yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love."

Grace Alone

We believe in the sovereignty of God in salvation and all things.  We affirm the Calvinistic doctrines of total depravity, unconditional election, definite atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints.  "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV)

Christ Alone

We believe that the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is about Jesus Christ.  He is our only hope of salvation.  Therefore we preach Christ and not moralism, legalism, or politics.  Only when we focus on Christ and trust in him can we walk worthy of the calling with which we have been called.

To read an excellent booklet dealing with Ultimate Questions regarding your eternal relationship with God, click here (off site link).

Contemporary Issues

God's people face a variety of issues in our culture today.  The links below lead to comments by our pastor or by others on a few of those.  While we do not necessarily endorse everything found in those links, we believe you may find them helpful.

        Through the Wardrobe: Is Narnia Safe?    (updated)       

In light of the novel and now the movie regarding The Da Vinci Code the following site may prove helpful to you.  It has been set up and is maintained by Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.  How do the book and the movie line up with the gospel accounts of who Jesus is and what he did?  Click on thetruthaboutdavinci.com (off our site) to find out.