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 History
Holy Trinity Reformed Church was constituted on October 6th, 2013 as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The church began meeting at the home of Pastor James Brown Jr in Mooresville, Indiana. One year later, the church was able to lease the former New Harmony Methodist Church in the rural farmland of Morgan County. On July 14th, 2019, Holy Trinity Reformed Church unanimously voted to join Evangel Presbytery. On January 5th, 2020, Holy Trinity Reformed Church moved to its current location at 7542 E Landersdale Rd, Camby, IN 46113. The work of establishing a Reformed church in Morgan County has been a slow but rewarding process. The Lord has been faithful to provide for our needs, both spiritual and physical. We are grateful for the progress that has been made and we look forward to continuing to labor for the advancement of the Gospel in this county.
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Our Beliefs
Holy Trinity Reformed Church adheres to the Old and New Testaments as the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience. In addition to the Scriptures, the church also follows the Westminster Standards (Westminster Confession of Faith, Shorter Catechism, and Larger Catechism) with the exception of the time and mode of baptism as stated in the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith, as well as the Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, Chalcedonian Creed, and Athanasian Creed. As a Reformed Church, Holy Trinity is a member of Evangel Presbytery, an association of Reformed Churches that upholds the same values and beliefs.
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Our Worship
The Scripture-based form of liturgical worship at Holy Trinity is rooted in the Reformation, which was a reforming of the Holy Catholic Church back to the authority of the Bible. Reformed worship seeks to communicate and impart genuine devotion and personal transformation through the means of grace, specifically word, sacrament, and prayer. This is done through the active participation of the congregation in Biblically-based and traditional liturgies. In reformed worship services, Scripture is read aloud and explained in sermons with specific applications; collective prayers are offered for needs near or far; songs merge Psalms, traditional hymns and contemporary compositions; the sacraments are often observed. The intent of reformed worship is multifaceted: it honors God’s supremacy, invokes his presence, unites hearts around His truth, edifies believers as they learn more about Him while being conformed into His likeness. Join us this Sunday as worship the Triune God in liturgy, community, and mission.
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Our Leaders
At Holy Trinity Reformed Church, we take leadership and church polity seriously. We are committed to Sola Scriptura, a Latin term from the Great Reformation meaning Scripture alone, which serves as our absolute final authority for faith and practice. Jesus is the Head of the Church and 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, consisting of Teaching Elders (Pastors), Ruling Elders, and Deacons. Our leaders are held accountable by our church constitution and the Book of Church Order, while still having the freedom to lead within these constitutional boundaries. In today's culture, leadership is often associated with fame, prestige, and power; however, at Holy Trinity, leadership is about faithfulness, service, and shepherding. We strive to uphold these values in all aspects of our church.
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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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