Trinity Harbor Church

Ours is the beginning-to-end God. A God intimately acquainted with not only the ends of our redemption, but the individual means to each of our salvation, such that he can promise that He “knows what you need before you ask him.” (Mt. 6:8)

The reason revisiting redemption is important is because in the process of God saving His people, we can understand, not only His sovereign purpose for us, but also His fatherly affection and compassionate character. We use specific terms to describe the parts of the process and they often take many words to explain. This information, while good and necessary, can cause us, for the sake of explaining redemption, to lose sight of the center of redemption.

In our distinguishing between individual aspects of salvation, the cohesion of the parts forming one glorious whole can be obscured. Is it possible that by becoming experts on election, regeneration, faith, justification, adoption, sanctification, and glorification we have missed the burning center around which each of these treasured doctrines revolve? Could it be by being greater on the summaries of the parts, the parts have become greater than the whole?

The New Testament has a very high view of community. Practicing New Testament community requires more of an individual's time, energy, and love than what can be offered in a Sunday worship service

That's why Trinity Harbor considers Community Groups to be essential to the life of the church.

As Community Groups start up for the 2010-2011 academic year, we thought we would take the week to ask a couple questions. Why are Community Groups important? How should Community Groups function?

If we can't answer the questions of why we are doing something, then it probably isn't worth doing.

In my Sunday school class last week, I hoped to both explain a major theme in the book of Exodus--"Who Is the Lord?"--and talk about the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Since I didn't get to the deliverance part, and since we need to move on to the next subject in class on Sunday, I figured I'd post to the Web site what I didn't get to mention in class so that you'd have a better understanding of the Exodus.