Pastoral Reflection
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Praise the Lord Trinity! I pray that you and your family have experienced the
Amazing Grace
and everlasting mercy of our loving God in significant ways this past week. I know you are ready to enter His gates with thanksgiving in your heart, and have prepared yourself to give God the fruit of your lips. This morning as we gather to worship God in spirit and in truth let me express my gratitude to our guest worshipping with us today. You are welcome here at the Trinity Missionary Baptist Church and I pray God’s richest blessings upon you and your families. If you and/or your family are looking for a Church home, we welcome you with open arms to this versatile ministry and multi-generational experience. Everybody needs a church family and a pastor. We aspire to be yours!
Trinity Missionary Baptist Church we are two weeks away from being One Hundred Years Old!!!
Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow!
God has been faithful to our church family, and His faithfulness warrants us being accountable to Him. It is unthinkable to believe that we can live faithful and fruitful Christian lives merely of good intentions and warm feelings. The Christian life is different from the church life because it’s an accountable life based on specific principles and standards rooted in the Holy Scriptures. It is founded on divinely revealed values and beliefs to which God holds each of us. Paul writes to the Church at Corinth in II Corinthians 5:9 with,
Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
John McArthur wrestles with answering the question, “How can you know if you are truly a Christian? How can you know if your decision for Christ wasn’t just an emotional experience?” He responded by saying “The only way to know if we have experienced justification, if we have been made right with him and brought into His family, is by looking at our hearts and our lives.”
Trinity, if Jesus Christ is our Savior and Lord, the deepest desire of our hearts should be to serve and to please Him and that desire will be expressed in a longing for holiness and a pattern of righteous living.
Still Amazed by God’s Grace,
Dr. John D. Tolbert
Senior Pastor
One Hundred Years of Reaching
One Hundred Years of Reaching a City to Touch the World
