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Trinity Baptist Church is a member of the Southern
Baptist
Convention and Arkansas
Baptist State Convention. Locally, Trinity is a
member of the Calvary
Baptist Association.
What we believe about...
...Scripture
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 trusthworthy. It reveals the principles
by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of
the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard
by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be
tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus
of divine revelation.
...God
There is one and only one living and true God. …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.
...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.
...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 privelegs invested in them by His Word, and seeking to
extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates
under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a
congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as
Lord. 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.
...Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of
human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by
marriage, blood or adoption.
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment
for a lifetime. ... The husband and wife are of equal worth before God,
since both are created in God's image. A husband is to love his wife as
Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide
for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself
graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church
willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of
God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given
responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in
managing the household and nurturing the next generation... Children,
from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the
Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God's pattern for
marriage.
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