Beliefs & Values

Beliefs Matter.

Trinity Baptist Church teaches, celebrates, and seeks to live by the good news about Jesus: he is the King, and by his life, death, and resurrection, he offers forgiveness of sin, freedom from death, and fellowship with God.

Because this is who Jesus is, we invite everyone to trust and follow Jesus with us.

Core Beliefs

The following statement summarizes core doctrinal commitments of Trinity Baptist Church.

We believe that the Scriptures are the inerrant, infallible, inspired, and authoritative Word of God.

We believe in one God who exists eternally in three distinct, fully divine persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the full deity and humanity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His perfect life, His perfect sacrifice for sin, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of God the Father, and His imminent return in power and glory.

We believe in the full deity of the Holy Spirit, who indwells every true believer, enables them to obey God, and preserves them for the day of redemption.

We believe that all humans are separated from God because of their sin, and that salvation comes to a person only by God's grace, and is received by trusting in Christ alone.

We believe that the local church is an assembly of baptized believers voluntarily associated by covenant in faith for fellowship, worship, and service.

Church Membership Matters.

Every Christian is part of the worldwide church of Christ, but that church has specific, local manifestations—congregations of people who gather regularly to worship Christ together.

Membership in such a congregation (church) is an important way of loving others, showing solidarity with the worldwide church of Christ, being accountable for spiritual growth, and advancing the cause of God's kingdom in the world. Membership is also an important way churches make decisions together.

Members' Covenant

As members of this church, we pledge:

To walk together in faith, love, and hope;

To devote ourselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayer;

To hold steadfastly that our salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, and not of our own doing;

To treasure the Word of God as our daily bread by obeying it, meditating on it, and hiding it in our hearts;

To present our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is our spiritual worship;

To forsake not the assembling of ourselves together, but to gather consistently to exhort and edify one another;

To use our spiritual gifts according to the grace Christ has given us, loving one another with brotherly affection, aiding one another in sickness and distress, and, insofar as it depends on us, living peaceably with all;

To speak the truth in love by comforting, encouraging, and, when necessary, rebuking; to reconcile conflicts, putting away bitterness and anger, being kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave us;

To give gladly to support the ministry, relieve the poor, and spread the gospel to all nations;

To renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, being controlled not by wine but by the Holy Spirit; to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, as we await our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works;

To advance God’s purpose for his church by bearing witness to Christ at home and work, at school and play, in private and public, in word and deed, for all our lives, so that all might come to know Christ whom to know is life eternal.