DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

We, as members of Trinity Alliance Church of Manitowoc, feel the need to state our understanding of the Christian faith. We hold to Believers baptism by Immersion, and the Priesthood of all Believers. We also affirm the following distinctives:

I. The Authority of Scripture

We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testament, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His Will for the salvation of man and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life. It is the standard by which all human conduct and creeds should be judged.

II. The Trinity

There is only one true and living God who is manifested in three eternal and coequal persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God possesses holiness, sovereignty, justice, love, and mercy.

He initiated salvation by sending His Son, and he is Father to those who by faith accept His Son as Lord and Savior.

The Son became man, Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Being fully God and fully man. He revealed God through His sinless life, miracles, and teaching. He provided salvation through His atoning death in our place and by His bodily resurrection. He ascended into heaven where He sits at the right hand of God and rules over all creation.

The Holy Spirit inspired men to write the Scriptures. Through this Word, he convicts individuals of their sinfulness and of the righteousness of Christ and draws them to the Savior. At conversion, the believer receives the gift of the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit the believer receives a new nature from God. Christian growth or sanctification is the continuation of the new life principle which begins in the new birth.

III. Humankind

We believe God created man in His own image to have fellowship with Himself and to be steward over His creation. As a result, each person is unique, possesses dignity and is worthy of respect. Through the temptation of Satan, Adam chose to disobey God; this brought sin and death to the human race and suffering to all creation. Therefore, everyone is born with a sinful nature and needs to be reconciled to God.

IV. Justification by Faith

Forgiveness cannot be earned. It is a gift from God through repentence and faith in Jesus Christ.

V. The Church

We believe the church is the body of which Christ is the head. The church consists of those who, through repentence and faith, believe in Him. The church is for the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world and mutual encouragement and growth in discipleship through worship, nurture, and service.

Ordinances of the church include baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is by immersion of the believer in water in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is the partaking of the bread and the cup by believers as a covenant act remembering the broken body and shed blood of Christ. These are acts of obedience symbolizing the believer's identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of the Savior Jesus Christ. All believers are called to share the gospel so that individual persons can receive salvation and become disciples of Jesus Christ.

VI. Human Destiny

At the return of Christ there will be the resurrection of the just to eternal life with God in heaven and the unjust to condemnation and eternal separation from God in Hell.

Adopted: January 18, 1998

Trinity Alliance Church
3121 Nagle Avenue
Manitowoc, WI 54220
Phone: 920-682-1522
Email: tac@tm.net

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