MEET OUR PASTOR

LEAD PASTOR - PASTOR COLIN TADLOCK

PASTOR COLIN TADLOCK IS THE LEAD PASTOR OF TRIUMPHANT CHURCH INTERNATIONAL. HE IS A BOLD, COMPASSIONATE PREACHER AND TEACHER WHO HAS SPENT HIS LIFE SERVING THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

FROM A VERY EARLY AGE PASTOR COLIN FELT THE CALL OF GOD ON HIS LIFE AND SERVED IN HIS HOME CHURCH FAITHFULLY THROUGH VARIOUS MINISTRIES. HE WORKED WITH KIDS, TEENS, YOUNG ADULTS AND ADULTS TO SERVE IN A MULTITUDE OF CAPACITIES FROM USHERING, TO CLEANING, TO HOSPITAL MINISTRY, TO MULTI-MEDIA, TO TRAVELING MINISTRY AND BEYOND.

GROWING UP IN A MINISTRY HOME, PASTOR COLIN FOLLOWED IN HIS PARENTS FOOTSTEPS TO PREACH THE UNCOMPROMISING WORD OF GOD TO THE WORLD. HE HAS GRADUATED FROM RHEMA BIBLE TRAINING COLLEGE AND THE PEACEMAKERS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. PASTOR COLIN LIVES TO CARRY ON THE LEGACY OF FAITH IN ACTION WITH SERVANT LEADERSHIP AT HIS FOREFRONT.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

1. THE BIBLE IS THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD

“WE BELIEVE THE SCRIPTURES ARE THE TRUE WORD OF GOD. BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS ARE VERBALLY INSPIRED OF GOD AND ARE THE REVELATION OF GOD TO MAN. IT IS THE INFALLIBLE (CAN'T FAIL AND WITHOUT ERROR),  AUTHORITATIVE RULE OF FAITH AND CONDUCT -- MEANING WE BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD HAS ULTIMATE POWER AND WE LINE UP OUR LIVES TO FOLLOW WHAT IT SAYS. IT DOES NOT CHANGE IN ACCORDANCE TO CULTURE, BUT CULTURE SHOULD BE CHANGED ACCORDING TO THE WORD. WE BELIEVE THAT ALL SCRIPTURE IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE AND THAT THE BIBLE IS A BOOK WRITTEN TO MANKIND, FOR MANKIND, AND THAT IT IS WRITTEN IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN CLEAR HUMAN LANGUAGE.”

2 TIMOTHY 3:15-17 / 1 THESSALONIANS 2:13 / 2 PETER 1:21 /HEBREWS 4:12

2. SALVATION IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST

“WE BELIEVE IN THE SALVATION OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONS THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. THEIR JUSTIFICATION IN FAITH ALONE COMES THROUGH PERSONAL REPENTANCE FROM THEIR SINS.

WE FURTHER BELIEVE IN SANCTIFICATION—THE LIFELONG PROCESS OF BEING MADE HOLY THROUGH GRACE ALONE. SANCTIFICATION COMMENCES IN THE HOLY, SACRED, AND POWERFUL ORDINANCE OF IMMERSIVE BAPTISM AND IS EVIDENCED BY PERSONAL HOLINESS AND PURITY OF HEART AND LIFE.”

MARK 16:15-16 / JOHN 3:3 / ROMANS 10:13-15 / TITUS 3:5-7 / JOHN 14:6

3. JESUS BREAKS THE POWER OF SIN

“WE BELIEVE THAT AFTER SALVATION THROUGH JESUS, THAT A PERSON IS A NEW CREATION. (1 CORINTHIANS 5:17) AND THEREFORE, THAT PERSON IS NO LONGER A "SINNER", AND THAT THE POWER OF SIN IS TRULY BROKEN OVER THAT PERSON. SANCTIFICATION IS AN ACT OF SEPARATION FROM THAT WHICH IS EVIL, AND OF DEDICATION UNTO GOD. THE SCRIPTURES TEACH A LIFE OF "HOLINESS WITHOUT WHICH NO MAN SHALL SEE THE LORD. BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WE ARE ABLE TO OBEY THE COMMAND: "BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY." SANCTIFICATION IS REALIZED IN THE BELIEVER BY RECOGNIZING HIS IDENTIFICATION WITH CHRIST IN HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION, AND BY THE FAITH RECKONING DAILY UPON THE FACT OF THAT UNION, AND BY OFFERING EVERY FACULTY CONTINUALLY TO THE DOMINION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.”

ROMANS 12:1-2 / ROMANS 6:14 / 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 / 1 PETER 1:15-16

4. BELIEVERS SHOULD BE WATER BAPTIZED

“WE BELIEVE BAPTISM BY FULL IMMERSION IS COMMANDED BY THE SCRIPTURES, ONCE A PERSON HAS MADE A CLEAR DECISION TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST. ALL WHO REPENT AND BELIEVE ON CHRIST AS SAVIOUR AND LORD, ARE TO BE BAPTIZED. THUS, THEY DECLARE TO THE WORLD, AND ENTER INTO A SPIRITUAL REALITY, THAT THEY HAVE DIED WITH CHRIST AND THAT THEY ALSO HAVE BEEN RAISED WITH HIM TO WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.”

MATTHEW 28:19 / MARK 16:16 / ACTS 10:47-48 / ROMANS 6:4

5. WE SHARE COMMUNION

“THE LORD'S SUPPER, CONSISTING OF THE ELEMENTS --BREAD AND THE FRUIT OF THE VINE-- IS THE SYMBOL, WHICH EXPRESSES OUR SHARING THE DIVINE NATURE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (2 PETER 1:4), A MEMORIAL OF HIS SUFFERING AND DEATH (1 CORINTHIANS 11:26). ALSO, IT EXHIBITS  A PROPHECY OF HIS SECOND COMING (1 CORINTHIANS 11:26), AND IS JOINED WITH ALL BELIEVERS "TILL HE COME.”

MATTHEW 26:26-28 / 1 CORINTHIANS 10:16-17 / 1 CORINTHIANS 11:22-28/ JOHN 6:51-58

6. BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

“ALL BELIEVERS ARE ENTITLED TO AND SHOULD EXPECT THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER, WHICH IS THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE. ALL BELIEVERS SHOULD SEEK OUT THIS BAPTISM ACCORDING TO THE COMMAND OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THIS WAS THE NORMAL EXPERIENCE OF ALL IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, SEEN REPEATEDLY THROUGHOUT THE BOOK OF ACTS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS. WITH IT COMES THE ENDUEMENT OF POWER FOR LIFE AND SERVICE, THE BESTOWMENT OF THE GIFTS AND THEIR USES IN THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY.

THIS EXPERIENCE IS DISTINCT FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NEW BIRTH. THE HOLY SPIRIT FILLS A BELIEVER AT SALVATION, AS JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES EXEMPLIFY IN JOHN 20, BUT JESUS PROMISED THERE WAS A GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BEYOND THIS IN ACTS 1:8 -- A SECOND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THIS SECOND WORK IS THE BAPTISM THAT WAS RECEIVED BY THE BELIEVERS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ACTS CHAPTER 2, AND IS REPEATEDLY EXPERIENCED THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH.”

LUKE 3:16 / JOHN 14:16-17, 26 / JOHN 15:26 / JOHN 16:7-14 / ACTS 1:4-8 / ACTS 2:1-4 / ACTS 10:44-46 / ACTS 19:1-6 / 1 CORINTHIANS 14:39 / JUDE 1:20

7. THE CHURCH

“WE BELIEVE THAT THE CHURCH, IS DEFINED AS THE ORGANIZED GATHERING TOGETHER OF BELIEVERS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF FIVE-FOLD MINISTRY GIFTS. IT IS ORDAINED BY GOD AS HIS PLAN FOR EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP. WE BELIEVE THAT INDIVIDUALS SHOULD NOT FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLY, THUS TREATING THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AS COMMON AND TRAMPLING IT UNDERFOOT.”

MATTHEW 16:15-18 / ACTS 20:28 / COLOSSIANS 1:18 / 1 TIMOTHY 3:15

8. THE RETURN OF CHRIST

“WE BELIEVE THE PROPHECIES THAT JESUS' REIGN, IS BOTH ALREADY HERE, AND YET TO COME. WE BELIEVE HE WILL RETURN TO EARTH TO GATHER HIS CHURCH, JUST AS HE PROMISED. THOUGH NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR, WE PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THAT RETURN AT ANY MOMENT.”

MATTHEW 24:29-31, 36 / 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-18 / 2 PETER 3:1-18

STATEMENT OF FAITH

"THE NICENE CREED"

WE BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND OF ALL THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE. AND IN ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, THE ONLY-BEGOTTEN, BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER BEFORE ALL AGES. LIGHT OF LIGHT; TRUE GOD OF TRUE GOD; BEGOTTEN, NOT MADE; OF ONE ESSENCE WITH THE FATHER, BY WHOM ALL THINGS WERE MADE; WHO FOR US MEN AND FOR OUR SALVATION CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND WAS INCARNATE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE VIRGIN MARY, AND BECAME MAN. AND HE WAS CRUCIFIED FOR US UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, AND SUFFERED, AND WAS BURIED. AND THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES; AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, AND SITS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER; AND HE SHALL COME AGAIN WITH GLORY TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD; WHOSE KINGDOM SHALL HAVE NO END. AND IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE LORD, THE GIVER OF LIFE, WHO PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER; WHO WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON TOGETHER IS WORSHIPPED AND GLORIFIED; WHO SPOKE BY THE PROPHETS. IN ONE HOLY, AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH. WE ACKNOWLEDGE ONE BAPTISM FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. WE LOOK FOR THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME. AMEN.