Who We Are
Our Vision
Our vision is to establish and advance a faithful communion of saints set apart and equipped to boldly take the gospel into south-central Indiana. This reformation project demands sacrifice, patience, and determination if we are to rebuild out of the ashes of Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. American and Western Civilization is in freefall apostasy that has destroyed the foundations that were recovered in the Great Reformation. The time has come for a new reformation based upon the same eternal truths that turned the world upside down in the 1st and 16th Centuries. We can not afford to continue in the failed experiments of Evangelicalism; we must return to the doctrinal and practical purity represented in Reformed Theology. The future of Christendom is at stake! We may not be able to change the current course of history but we can be salt and light here in central Indiana.
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Our HistoryReformed Church of the Holy Trinity was constituted on October 6th, 2013 as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We began meeting at the home of Pastor James Brown Jr in Mooresville, Indiana. One year later the Lord gave us our present meeting facilities (the former New Harmony Methodist Church) in the rural farmland of Morgan County. The church building was built in 1900 and although the building needed some immediate repairs, the Lord has been gracious to provide our needs. Since 2013, we have continued to labor for the physical and spiritual establishment of a Reformed church centered in Morgan County. Although the work has been slow, the Lord has blessed the work with a group of core families committed to this mission. On July 14th, 2019, Reformed Holy Trinity unanimously voted to join Evangel Presbytery.
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Our Beliefs
The beliefs and practices of Reformed Church of the Holy Trinity are subject to the Old and New Testaments, which we believe to be the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience. Subordinate to the Scriptures, this church adheres to the Westminster Standards (Westminster Confession of Faith, Shorter Catechism, and Larger Catechism) with the exception on the time and mode of baptism as stated in the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith, along with the Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, Chalcedonian Creed, and Athanasian Creed. Reformed Holy Trinity belongs to Evangel Presbytery, an association of Reformed Churches.
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Our Worship
The object of our liturgy is the worship of the Triune God according to Biblical means and forms; the discipleship of saints according to Biblical doctrine; and, the defense of our ancient faith once delivered to the saints.
We will strive to worship Biblically in reverent humility before God, in joy, thankfulness, and praise toward our Lord Jesus Christ, and according to the power of the Holy Spirit. Our basic order of worship is as follows:
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Our Leaders
We take leadership and church polity seriously. We are committed to Sola Scriptura, a Latin term from the Great Reformation meaning "Scripture alone." The Bible is our absolute final authority for faith and practice. Jesus is the Head of the Church and as such holds the offices of Prophet, Priest, and King over His Church. As the Governor of His Church, he has given gifts, authority, and accountability to a plurality of men for the governance of the Church. We believe this consists of Teaching Elders (Pastors), Ruling Elders, and Deacons. Our leaders are held accountable by our church constitution and the Book of Church Order while maintaining the ability to freely lead within these constitutional boundaries. Leadership in today's culture is about fame, prestige, and power; here at Reformed Church of the Holy Trinity leadership is about faithfulness, service, and conservation.
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Our Affiliation
Evangel Presbytery is a new association of reformed churches. Our charter meeting was held in Bloomington, Indiana on February 19th and 20th, 2019. A group of teaching and ruling elders have provisionally adopted a set of constitutional documents and are now in the process of taking them back to their home churches for adoption by each church’s elders and congregation.
Our purpose forming this new presbytery is not to replace any other presbytery, nor do we aspire to any purity of doctrine or practice unique in our present ecclesiastical context. We will set ourselves in the mainstream of historic Protestant and Reformed practice and doctrine, asking God to allow us to demonstrate some commonality of zeal and truth with those fathers in the faith who have gone before us. We desire to create nothing new, but only to reaffirm the doctrine and practice of those who have gone before us. We ask God’s blessing on our work. |
Our Committments
We are committed to the Biblical and historic faith of the Christian religion. We reject the emergent ways of modern Evangelicalism and are committed to following:
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"Let us, for instance, take the question of infant baptism. It is one which is highly important; but why may not those who differ on this point hold fellowship with one another? I baptize my children—I do it to the Lord—I believe it to be his will—If I am wrong, I should be very happy to be convinced that I am so. Another does not baptize his children—To the Lord he does it not. I am also bound to believe that he wishes to walk in the path of duty; that he wishes to be convinced if he is wrong. In other things we agree. We feel the same corruptions. We love and obey the same Savior. We are equally begotten to a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ; but it seems we must not be members of the same church on earth. Surely this is the spirit of error. This wisdom cometh not from above. Indeed, if a Paedobaptist and an Antipaedobaptist cannot be members of the same church, or sit down together at the Lord's table, they ought not to pray together."
-Rev. James Alexander Haldane, Scottish Baptist Pastor (1807)
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