Confessional Christianity

Pastor Martin opens a thirteen-week series intended as a manifesto of Trinity Baptist Church under the banner 'Here We Stand.' After recounting Luther's stand at Worms, he explains the nature and substance of the series and lays out six goals: three categorized goals (confirm old-timers, initiate newcomers, inform onlookers) and three generalized goals (compulsion to praise and worship, immunization against error, provocation to love and good works).

The first doctrinal message of the Here We Stand series treats the nature and authority of Scripture. Pastor Martin argues that a church's view of the Bible determines everything else in its confession, then expounds the necessity, nature, purpose, and proper attitude toward Scripture, grounding inspiration in 2 Timothy 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:20-21 and drawing out the corollaries of authority, inerrancy, perspicuity, sufficiency, and Christocentricity.