Who we are

As Anglican Christians we are:

Evangelical: We believe the Good News of Jesus Christ to be the Gospel of Life and Salvation for
the whole world and believe that all persons are called into a personal relationship with the Living
God in Jesus Christ. As a mission minded church family, we believe that we are commissioned and
empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus Christ, (through our witness of the Faith, public
testimony, our daily ministry, and through Word & Sacrament), a living and present reality in the
lives of those whom we daily encounter. Our faith, moral beliefs, worship, preaching and teaching
are grounded in God's holy Word. As evangelical Christians we proclaim Jesus Christ to be the
Way, the Truth and the Life and the only means of salvation for humankind.

Reformed: We believe in the primacy and authority of the Holy Bible over and within the Church,
emphasizing God's Word in our worship, preaching and teaching. We humbly submit ourselves to
the transforming power of the Holy Scriptures as Divinely inspired, containing all things necessary
to Salvation and believe it is not lawful for the Church to proclaim any thing that is contrary to
God's Word written, nor is it lawful for any one part of the Church to alter the Evangelical Faith or
Catholic Order of the whole Church unilaterally. Furthermore, we proclaim that Salvation is a free
gift of God given by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Spirit-filled: We believe that Christian life is, by definition, new life in the Holy Spirit. We fully
understand our Faith and ministry as gifts from God and evidence of the Spirit's power and
presence among us. It is the Holy Spirit who draws us into the life, ministry, death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ; in whom we daily encounter the Living God. Apart from the Holy Spirit, we can not
be born anew in Christ and our labors are in vain.

Orthodox: We profess the Faith once delivered to the Saints. We believe our Faith to be at one
with the holy Faith of the undivided Catholic Church of the first Christian Millennium before the sad
divisions within the Christian Church and believe our contemporary worship, in Word and
Sacrament, to be in direct continuity with the Church of all ages and places. The word 'orthodox'
means right belief in God and right worship of God. Therefore, we offer the authentic historic Faith
and worship of the ancient Church for today's world.

Catholic: We have retained, proclaim and celebrate the same Holy Scriptures, Creeds, Councils,
moral teachings, Sacraments (i.e., Holy Baptism & Holy Communion), and Orders of Ministry
(those of Bishop, Priest, and Deacon) as that of the undivided Catholic Church of the first Christian
Millennium. The word 'Catholic' [Greek, katholikos] means Universal or Whole. Therefore, we
proclaim the whole doctrine, moral teaching, discipline and worship of the Universal Church as
traditionally received within the Anglican Communion and articulated in the classical Anglican
Formularies (the Thirty-Nine Articles, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and Ordinal, and the
Lambeth Quadrilateral). Believing Christian life to be sacramental, we celebrate all seven
Sacraments, i.e., the two Dominical Sacraments and the five Sacramental Rites of the Catholic
Church.

Believers in the Sanctity of Human Life: We are fully committed to the Biblical and Catholic
view of the Sanctity of all human life from the moment of conception until natural death.

Apostolic: By our faithfulness to the above, we seek to present the teaching, mission, worship and
fellowship of the Apostolic Church to today's world.

Contact us at info@holytrinitymarlborough.org

Our Goals:

To call all persons to repentance and salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

To proclaim, preach and teach, with authority and conviction, the Good News of Jesus Christ, the
Gospel of Life and Salvation, leading persons into a living faith and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord
and Savior.

To unite persons of Faith to the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ through the
saving waters of Holy Baptism and to continually nourish this new life through Spirit-filled ministry,
Christian fellowship, preaching, teaching and worship, and above all by partaking regularly of the
Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in the Lord's Supper.

To enable persons, through Word and Sacrament, to become partakers in the very life of God: the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Our Worship:

Is Biblically based (evangelical), Spirit-filled (charismatic) and fully Sacramental (catholic).

Believing that Jesus Christ is truly present in the gathering and prayers of His people, in the
reading of His holy Word, in the proclamation of the Gospel and, in a very special way, in the
Sacrament of His Body & Blood (the Risen Christ being truly & objectively Present), we are a
church with a vital worship experience; we are people who believe the words spoken and sung,
and we let it show by our enthusiasm.

Our Statement of Faith

Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Marlborough, MA is a Christian faith community seeking to
worship God in Spirit and in Truth, and to follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As a
Congregation of The Anglican Church in North America, we are wholly committed to
upholding orthodox Christianity. Our life, witness, preaching and teaching is grounded in the
Evangelical (Biblical) Faith and Catholic Order of the undivided Church during the first ages of
its existence. We believe in the primacy of Scripture, affirming its authority and entire
trustworthiness. We believe that the Bible is the Word of God containing all things necessary
for our salvation and therefore the primary source for doctrine, discipline and worship. Holy
Tradition (e.g., the writings of the early Church Fathers and the Faith and Moral Decrees of the
Seven Ecumenical Councils) enables us to enter more fully into the wondrous depth and sacred
mystery of God's Holy Word as understood and received in the early centuries of the Church.

Our Christian faith is about a personal relationship with the Living God: the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who pours divine life and love into our hearts, enabling us
to share in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. Just as the power of the
Holy Spirit brought the Good News alive for the original disciples, so the Holy Spirit
transforms us personally and corporately through a life-changing revelation of the Truth in Jesus
Christ.

Because God has placed the truth of his Word within our hearts, we are called to be bearers of
his Good News. As we continue to respond to God's transforming love, we desire to be a
powerful witness of God's truth, saving love, forgiveness and mercy, both inside the church as
well as outside the church, through discipleship, outreach, evangelism and church-planting.

These beliefs, commitments and desires are central to the faith and witness of our church
family.