Trinity Presbyterian Church
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A Congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America
In Christ, For Corinth
“Committed participants in God’s mission to redeem Corinth, Mississippi.”
What Is God’s Mission for Trinity Church?
The Lord Jesus summarized the goal of our lives
God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in grace and
when he commanded, “Love the Lord your God
truth.
with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
strength, and with all your mind. And love your
neighbor as yourself.”
God’s mission for our church is God’s mission for
our lives. Think about it. God’s mission for our
church includes the same mission for our families,
our work, our recreation, our interests, our talents,
our money, our time, our friendships, our dreams,
“Apart from me, you
can do nothing.”
our goals – To Love Him and To Love Others.
How might that look? God calls his church to three
major foci: to worship, to weave, to witness.
WORSHIP
Worship is the declaration of God’s worth in all of
life. It is a way of saying, “God is therefore I am.”
But Christians also participate in public worship, a
weekly reminder of life’s right order. And from it,
blessing flows.
From living worship, a community is weaved. God
calls His people to bind themselves to one another.
God uses metaphors like bride, body, vine, tree,
flock to describe us. These words are collective
nouns - one, yet many. God uses this multi-cultural,
multi-gifted, multi-familial community to create
one voice, one life, one hope, one people.
Anything less diminishes who we were created to
be.
Therefore, we, Trinity Presbyterian Church, will be a
community that embraces, encourages,
educates, and emboldens one another.
WITNESS
A woven community that sincerely worships will
witness. Bearing the good news of Jesus is a yoke
of pleasure given by our Lord, and is manifest
As fish cannot live outside of the water, so humans
through the gifts, interests, and opportunities
cannot live apart from God. Those whom God has
unique to our church in our time.
redeemed know that to live, grow, bend, and
blossom, he or she must stay strongly “connected”
to the living God.
Therefore, we, Trinity Presbyterian Church, will be a
community that faithfully adores God the Father,
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WEAViNG
Therefore, we, Trinity Presbyterian Church, will strive
to be a community that embraces the lost, hurting,
and embittered in order to connect them to the
Redeemer.
PRAY
How Then Shall We Live?
We are a church committed to “knee-ology.” In
order to foster a worshipping, weaving, and
witnessing community, we will first need to be a
praying community, demonstrating a
dependence on God in everything. We are
committed to making prayer our cornerstone
ministry.
We are a church committed to “do-ology.”
Indeed, “we are saved by faith alone, but that
faith is never alone.” Saving faith always expresses
itself to Christ, church, and community. We will
commit to one another in humble service,
aggressive encouragement, wasteful love, and an
PARTICIPATE
We are a church committed to “we-ology.” The
apostle Paul wrote 13 letters always addressed to
“We are witnesses, not of our
religious experiences, but of
Jesus, his incarnation, ministry,
death, and resurrection. We
cannot keep silent about this
because it is the truth that
concerns every human being.
It is the truth about the human
story. And so it must be told to
everyone one until the end of
time.”
-- Leslie Newbigin
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eager presence both within and without our
community.
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“y’all” (second person plural). All Christians are
We are a church committed to “grin-ology.” Far
meant to share in the ministries of the church. So in
from the dour caricatures of Christians stereotyped
“doing church” we will discern our gifts, explore
in media, we believe the Lord calls His people to
the Bible’s wisdom before taking steps, and act
enjoy life, embrace the good in creation, and
upon those convictions. Our church ministries fall
delight in what is true and right. The gospel
under these four domains of service drawn from
liberatres us from guilt, shame, and fear and
Acts 2:
compels us to love, laugh, and live! Living in the
Ainontes (praise), homothumidon (one mind),
diemerizon (sharing), and agallisay kardias (joyful
hearts), or Worship, Weaving, Witness, and
Winsomeness.
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light of God’s grace, and the freedom that comes
with loving obedience, we plan on enjoying our
time with one another.
How Then Shall We Think?
Trinity Presbyterian Church is a Christian church. It is
therefore connected to followers of Christ from every
kingdom, nation, tribe, culture, language, and ethnicity
on earth.
Christianity’s unique message is summarized in
the word “grace.” It is God’s embrace of His
enemies – us! Left to ourselves, we would never
As a Christian church, we share in both the tragedies
desire to know, love, serve, and honor God. But
and triumphs of Christ’s people throughout the ages,
rather than leaving us to our own demise, God
and seek in humble reliance upon God to be faithful to
rescued us by absorbing into Himself the pardon
His word and His way.
we all require. He loved us “when we were
Because of that, we feel bound to certain convictions
that promote the purity and peace of Christ’s church,
including:
GOSPEL
sinners,” and more startingly, “not because of
righteous things we had done.” Why? He delights
in mercy.
Trinity Presbyterian Church is composed of a
bunch of sinners who have been steamrolled by
The Bible has a central point – the Person and Work of
grace – who bask in the finished work of Christ.
Jesus, the Son of God. Apart from him, the words,
We point fingers only at Christ, not at other
instructions, and promises of Scripture are merely ink on
strugglers.
paper. But because of Him, the gospel is “the power of
God unto salvation,” the “life of God in Christ,” and
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GRACE
GLORY
where “all the promises of God are yes, and amen!”
“Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Thy Name be
Thus, we promote the gospel as not only the “way in”
glory” (Psalm 115). The subject and object of
the Christian life, but the “way kept. The gospel is
what we do is God, our Creator, Redeemer, and
emphasized at Trinity Church because we believe its
Sustainer. We belong to His Kingdom (his rule in
continual rediscovery is the process by which spiritual
word and deed) and therefore are about His
renewal occurs, and thus life as God intended it. We
business (to bring glory to Himself). The Church is
believe the gospel can transform any person, institution,
His community to help bring His glory about in the
community, or city.
world.
Trinity
Presbyterian
Church
The name “Trinity” was chosen to
We are part of a family of churches
Trinity Presbyterian Church did not fall
designate our church in direct response
called the Presbyterian Church in
from the sky. Rather, it is part of a tradition
to what we believed to be a compromise
America (PCA). The denomination was
that has been shaped by men and
of God’s word. At the time, some were
founded in 1973, but considers itself part
women of God who’ve come before. We
teaching that any “metaphor” would
of Christ’s unbroken fellowship of gospel-
are thus often called a Reformed and
suffice to designate God, in place of the
centered Christians present throughout
Confessional church. Reformed means
orthodox Father, Son, and Spirit. We
history. (www.pcanet.org).
we uphold the tenets of the Protestant
believed this to be more than mere
semantics. It was a statement concerning
the authority and reliability of God’s
Word. Thus, we chose the name “Trinity”
to designate our belief that the Scriptures
are the inspired word of God, and they
alone tell us what we are to believe
about God and what God believes
about man.
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The word “Presbyterian,” a mouthful for
sure, simply is the Greek New Testament
term meaning “elder.” It refers to the
representative form of church
government we use. We elect elders who
oversee the spiritual well-being of our
flock. Our pastor is a teaching elder, and
others are ruling elders.
Reformation (grace alone, faith alone,
scripture alone, Christ alone, for God’s
glory alone) in relation to our faith and
practice. Confessional means we have a
written standard, derived from the Holy
Scriptures, that give shape, clarity, and
conviction to our beliefs. This statement is
called the “Westminster Confession of
Faith.”
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Meeting address:
Meeting Times:
1103 Proper Street
Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.
Mailing address
Sunday School
Box 243
Corinth, MS 38834
Wednesday
6:00 p.m.
Fellowship Bible Study
Contact:
www.tpccorinth.org
Pastor: Sam McDonald
(662) 415-8765
11:00 a.m.