Within any topic, when we want to get at the aspect that is most crucial, we may call that aspect the “crux of the matter.” For Trinity, that is our faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to honoring Him in everything we do. This is the reason our school was founded in 1981 and why we exist today, to be a “Christ-centered” school as our mission statement declares. And, if Christ is at the center of our school, then what is at the center of the person and work of Christ himself, but the cross upon which he died.
The cross of Christ is at the very core of Christianity. Interestingly, the words crucial and crux have their root in the Latin word for “cross.” So, our English language today echoes that connection between the cross and what is most crucial. The apostle Paul stresses the centrality of the cross in his first letter to the church at Corinth: “And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:1-2).
During this Christmas season, we celebrate the birth of Jesus-- that God himself came down to live among us. But, we must first recognize that He needed to come. In our sinful and helpless condition, we needed His intervention; we needed a Savoir and his atoning death on the cross. In that sense, Christmas is first an indictment on us before it is “good news of great joy.” But, joyous news it is! His death on the cross has freed us from the condemnation of sin and provided us with a righteousness we could not attain. That is why we celebrate His coming this Christmas.
When you look at the TCS logo, you see the Roman column representing our classical method, and the laua’e fern representing growth in our Hawaiian community. But, at the center of our logo is the cross of Christ. May He always be for us the crux of the matter.
Stephen Sprague
Headmaster