Trinity is a \u201cconfessional Lutheran\u201d congregation (and also a member of the Lutheran Church \u2013 Missouri Synod.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is \u201cconfessional Lutheranism?\u201d It is \u201ccatholic\u201d but not Roman \nCatholic. It is \u201cevangelical\u201d but not part of the pop-Christian movement\n known as Evangelicalism. Confessional Lutheranism is interested in \nliving out the faith of the church throughout the ages (catholic) in a \npurely Gospel centered (evangelical) manner. We believe sinners like us \nare saved by grace alone through faith alone on account of Christ alone.\n We also believe that faith is never alone since it produces love, and \nthat grace is never alone because it always comes to us in the means of \ngrace (preached Gospel, administered sacraments). We believe the Bible \nis inspired by God the Holy Spirit and is without error. The Bible is \nthe only truth source that is without error. But we who read the Bible \nare very capable of error! So we need help as we read it. That help \ncomes from the holy Christian church to which Christ has committed \nHimself (Matthew 28:20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confessional Lutheranism understands itself as historic Christian \nfaith and life, nothing less, nothing more. As the centuries of church \nhistory have moved along, various questions have arisen. The Lutheran \nConfessions are a set of documents that set forth Biblical answers to \nthose questions. The Confessions also seek to demonstrate that these \nanswers interpret Holy Scripture the same way the ancient creeds, \ncouncils and fathers of the church faithfully interpreted them \nthroughout the church\u2019s first seven centuries or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Churches that make a point of being \u201cconfessional\u201d or that wish to \nlive out \u201chistoric Christianity\u201d want to align both their teaching and \ntheir practice with that of the whole church throughout all time and in \nall places. They are very uncomfortable with teaching or doing something\n novel. They have a healthy distrust of their own private judgement and \nof the spirit of the age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trinity is such a church. We actively teach the faith of the Lutheran Confessions, the church fathers and councils, etc., reading the Bible through that lens rather than through some other lens such as pious experience, human reason, or marketing data! Any one who claims to read the Bible through no lens at all is kidding himself and failing to take his own sinful nature seriously enough! The best lens is the lens of that church to which Jesus has said, \u201cI will be with you always.\u201d This church is, as Scripture puts it, \u201cthe pillar and foundation of the truth.\u201d (1 Timothy 3:15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to give you the life of God, the \nforgiveness of sin, victory over hell and Satan and the wrath of God. \nJesus died for you. Jesus lives in His church for you. Jesus invites you\n to be found by Him, in Him, in a church where He is preaching, washing,\n forgiving, and feeding His people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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