Trinity Lutheran Church
LCMS
4225 West Yale Avenue, Denver, CO 80219
Divine Service 9:00AM / Adult and Children Bible Studies 10:30AM
Trinity Lutheran Is:
- A Biblical Church
- Trinity preaches and teaches the Holy Scriptures. They are the sole source from which all our proclamation flows. We believe with the Christians of all ages that the Bible is given to us from God. That the Holy Spirit saw to its writing. That it is free from error. That its truth does not change. That the Bible shows to us and gives to us Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins. That the Bible teaches that we actually have sins and are conceived in sin and that Jesus and His gifts are the answer to those sins. (The Law and the Gospel.)
- A Confessional Church
- We are a Church that humbly stands on the shoulders of our Fathers and mothers in the Christian faith. We wholeheartedly confess the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed, because we believe these confessions to be true yet today. We also bind ourselves willingly to the confessions of the Church of the Reformation as they are found in the Book of Concord (1580). We believe Luther was right when he by the Holy Spirit once again preached that salvation was found not through what we do or do not do, but in the blood of Christ which was shed for the world. We instruct our children and anyone else who is interested in the Small Catechism because we believe Christianity is worth being taught, not just once but throughout all of life. We use a hymnal singing new hymns and old hymns, joining us in song to the confession of Christians from all ages.
- A Sacramental Church
- We believe that even as Christ was found in the flesh born of Mary, so God is found and joined to things in this life that we can see, feel, smell, taste, and touch. We baptize. We serve the Lord's Supper. We pronounce the Holy Absolution. We do so as Christ has commanded us. Matt 28, "As you are going into all the nations baptize and teach..." Luke 22, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." John 20, "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them, if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." So may argue if there are 2 or 3 or 7 or 10 or hundreds of Sacraments. We acknowledge that there are different definitions of the word "Sacrament." We are especially concerned with those places that Jesus has joined Himself to a human element for the "forgiveness of sins." Baptism is for all. The Lord's Supper is for those who have been instructed in the faith into which they are baptized. The Absolution (the releasing of sins) is for all.
- A Liturgical Church
- Also known to some as a traditional Church. We follow a formal liturgy. We pray things that Christians before us have prayed. We confess things that Christians before us have confessed. We sing things that Christians before us have sung. These things are done within the context of a service you can follow in a hymnal, knowing what to expect. The 10 lepers prayed to Jesus, "Lord have mercy." So did the blind man. So did many other Christians. Jesus heard their prayer, so we pray the "Kyrie," or the "Lord have mercy," with confidence knowing that Jesus hears us. The Apostle's confessed the faith Christ taught them. Through their teaching the Church received the Apostle's Creed. We believe what the Apostle's taught and wrote by the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures. We confess that faith in the words of the Apostle's Creed. Simeon held the baby Jesus in his arms. (Luke 2) He sung that he could now die having seen and having held Jesus His Savior. We too sing that we can even die in peace as we through Word and Sacraments have seen and held Jesus our Savior. We pray the Lord's Prayer, because the Lord Jesus Christ gave it to us as the perfect prayer. We bow where Christians before have bowed. We kneel where Christians before have kneeled. We make the sign of the cross even as Luther and countless hosts of other Christians have done to comfort us with the death of Christ which is for us. We aim to be reveret before our God yet wearing vestments, using acolytes and conducting ourselves as best we can in the house of our God, because of what He has done for us and our salvation.
- A catholic (Universal) Church
- We believe that one Church will endure forever. That there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4) We believe God's truth does not change. That God's Word does not change. That the promise of Christ was what gave to saints of old forgiveness and salvation and that same promise gives salvation to Christians today. We believe that Christ joins people together as He did on Pentecost. That Christians of all races, languages, and peoples are one in Christ's Church, none greater or less than the others. We believe that He does so not by passing over sins, but by confronting sinners,calling them to repentance and granting the repentant full pardon and forgiveness. We believe that salvation is found in the Church and that while on earth we err in our teaching, in heaven all Christians who have placed their hope in Christ will be joined in the Church triumphant that knows no end.
Trinity Lutheran Church teaches and responds to the love of the Triune God: the Father, Creator of all that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God's Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the Trinity are coequal and coeternal, one God.
Being "Lutheran," our congregation accepts and teaches the Bible-based teachings of Martin Luther that inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century. The teaching of Luther and the reformers can be summarized in three short phrases: Grace alone, Scripture alone, Faith alone.
- Grace Alone - God loves the people of the world, even though they are sinful, rebel against Him and do not deserve His love. He sent Jesus, His Son, to love the unlovable and save the ungodly.
- Scripture Alone - The Bible is God's inerrant and infallible Word, in which He reveals His Law and His Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ. It is the sole rule and norm for Christian doctrine.
- Faith Alone - By His suffering and death as the substitute for all people of all time, Jesus purchased and won forgiveness and eternal life for them. Those who hear this Good News and believe it have the eternal life that it offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives people forgiveness through Him.
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