About Us

The WordTrax Mission

To raise up the next generation of strong Christian leaders. To achieve this goal, we directly influence young people between 5th and 12th grade. But there are only so many we can reach. Therefore, we enlist the Church itself to raise up this generation. Almost every adult believer has the ability to influence the young people within their sphere. We have found that most mature believers are willing and even anxious to persuade their loved ones, but are unable to do so for lack of knowledge. WordTrax is a ministry which teaches them how.

Goal #1

Teach Gospel believers how to defend their faith in an ever more hostile environment, yet with gentleness and respect. Many college students who grow up in the church are suddenly released into the world. Their compass needles spin and they don’t know how to give a logical accounting for the hope that is in them. They seek after a lifeline. They call for help and are often given little with which to stay the course. WordTrax is dedicated to educating and encouraging such young adults, their parents, teachers and mentors.

Goal #2

Show non-believers that it’s safe to question what they’ve been programmed to believe all their lives and now take for granted as truth. All mankind has a kernel of truth that has been written on their hearts. Yet they suppress it. A goal of this ministry to help people use their innate ability to reason.

Mr. LaCorte, God has used you and your ministry to shape me into the man I am today and I look up to you as a mentor, teacher and brother/father in Christ. May God grant you many more years of life and continue to use you in great ways.”

Brayant Sanchez

High School Senior, Iron Academy, Raleigh, NC

Ben LaCorte

Ben LaCorte started WordTrax apologetics ministries while teaching Christian Apologetics to youth, college and adults at his Church. With master’s degrees in business and Theology, Ben speaks to Church groups, Seminaries and at local Christian Schools about defending the great truths. He organizes apologetics conferences and debates world religions as a way to demonstrate heart-to-heart engagement with non-believers. Ben’s new monthly video series equips the next generation of strong Christians to lead in today’s culture. Ben is married with three grown children, lives in North Carolina and likes to sail and play electric guitar. His primary passions are:

a) to educate and equip young people to take ownership of their faith, and to be able to defend what they believe with confidence and clarity to their skeptical peers; and

b) to teach mature adult believers how to raise up strong believers and protect them against the powerful cultural undertow which pulls them away from the safety of the Christian worldview.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Founding Director of WordTrax, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization whose mission is to disseminate Christian apologetics information pursuant to a Christian Worldview, to equip the Church to engage the culture, and to teach believers to defend and proclaim the great truths of Christianity.

Education:

  • Biola University: Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics (Candidate)
  • Shepherds Theological Seminary: Master of Arts in Biblical Literature
  • Cornell University: Master’s in Business Administration (MBA)
  • Clarkson University: Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering

Personal:

  • Married 36 years, three grown children
  • Graduate of the Dale Carnegie Presentation Effectiveness Program
  • Licensed Private Pilot
  • Licensed Professional Engineer (Texas)

 

OUR STATEMENT OF TRUTH

THE HOLY SCRIPTURESThe Bible is God’s word in written form. It consists of the 66 books of the Holy Bible; written by the hand of man under the inspiration and instruction of the Holy Spirit. God cannot err; the Bible was written by God; therefore the Bible contains no error in its original texts. It is the complete and infallible rule of faith and practice, not subject to revision or addition. It is to be interpreted literally where intended and symbolically where intended. It is the immutable Word of God, the embodiment of objective truth; not open to subjective interpretation for the sake of cultural shift, supposed new revelation or any other reason. Exodus 32:16; Deuteronomy 31:9-13; 1 Timothy 3:16

GODThere is but one true and living God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:5-7; 1 Corinthians 8:4), an infinite, all-knowing Spirit (John 4:24), perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons—the Father, the Son who is Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14)—each equally deserving worship and obedience.

God is truly sovereign, but He exercises this sovereignty in harmony with His other attributes, especially His omniscience, justice, holiness, wisdom, grace, and love. This sovereignty will always exalt the will of God in a manner totally consistent with His character as revealed in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ (Proverbs 16:1-4).

God the Father: God the Father is the Creator of all things (Genesis 1:1-31; Ephesians 3:9). As the only absolute and omnipotent Ruler in the universe, He is sovereign in creation, providence, and redemption (Psalm 103:19; Romans 11:36). He is Father to all men (Ephesians 4:6), but He is spiritual Father only to believers (Romans 8:14). He has decreed for His own glory all things that come to pass. He continually upholds, directs, and governs all creatures and events (1 Chronicles 29:11).

God the Son: Jesus Christ possesses all the divine attributes, and in these He is coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal with the Father (John 10:30; 14:9). At the incarnation, Christ was born of a virgin and is the incarnate God (God becoming man). In His incarnation, the eternally existing second Person of the Trinity accepted all the essential characteristics of humanity and so became the God-Man, being both fully God and fully man (Philippians 2:5-8; Colossians 2:9).

God the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a divine Person, eternal, underived, possessing all the attributes of personality and deity, including intellect (1 Corinthians 2:10-13), emotions (Ephesians 4:30), will (1 Corinthians 12:11), eternality (Hebrews 9:14), omnipresence (Psalm 139:7-10), omniscience (Isaiah 40:13-14), omnipotence (Romans 15:13), and truthfulness (John 16:13). In all the divine attributes He is coequal and consubstantial with the Father and the Son (Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3-4; 28:25-26; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; Hebrews 10:15-17).

CREATION: We believe that the creation of the universe from nothing is neither allegory nor myth but a literal, historical event. The existence of all things is the result of the direct, immediate, creative acts of the triune God over six literal days (Genesis 1). Humanity—body and soul/spirit—was created by a direct work of God. Humans did not evolve from previously existing forms of life. The entire human race descended from the historical Adam and Eve, the first parents of the entire human race. (Genesis 1–2; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16–17)

MANMan was created by God in His image and likeness; free of sin with a rational nature, intelligence, volition, self-determination, and moral responsibility to God (Genesis 1:26-27; James 3:9).

God’s intention in the creation of man was that man should glorify God, enjoy God’s fellowship, live his life in the will of God, and by this accomplish God’s purpose for man in the world (Isaiah 43:7; Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11).

Through Adam’s sin of disobedience, man lost his innocence, incurred the penalty of spiritual and physical death, became subject to the wrath of God, and became inherently corrupt and utterly incapable of choosing or doing that which is acceptable to God apart from divine grace. Man’s salvation is thereby wholly of God’s grace through the redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ (Genesis 2:16-17; 3:1-19; John 3:36; Romans 3:23; 6:23; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 2:1-3; 1 Timothy 2:13-14; 1 John 1:8).

REDEMPTIONThe Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through the shedding of His blood and sacrificial death on the cross, that He died in our place and in so doing He paid the full price demanded by the Father for the forgiveness of sin (John 10:15; Romans 3:24-25; 5:8; 1 Peter 2:24).

On the basis of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, the believing sinner is freed from the punishment, the penalty, the power, and one day the very presence of sin; and by the Grace of God he is declared righteous, given eternal life, and adopted into the family of God (Romans 3:25; 5:8-9; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; 1 peter 2:24; 3:18).

In the miracle of resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave, God confirmed the deity of His Son and gave proof that God has accepted the atoning work of Christ on the cross. It also guarantees the future resurrection of all believers (John 5:26-29; 14:19; Romans 1:4; 4:25; Romans 6:5-10; 1 Corinthians 15:20, 23). Jesus’ bodily resurrection is a historical event.

SALVATIONSalvation is wholly of God by Grace on the basis of the redemption of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works (John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-10; 1 Peter 1:18-19).

The unmerited favor that God grants to totally depraved sinners is not related to any initiative of their own part or to God’s anticipation of what they might do by their own will, but is solely of His sovereign grace and mercy (Ephesians 1:4-7; Titus 3:4-7; 1 Peter 1:2).

THE CHURCHAll who place their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the church (1 Corinthians 12:12-13), the bride of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:23-32; Revelation 19:7-8), of which Christ is the Head (Ephesians 1:22; 4:15; Colossians 1:18). The church is thus a unique spiritual organism designed by Christ, made up of all born-again believers in this present age (Ephesians 2:11-3:6).

The one supreme authority for the church is Christ (1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 1:22; Colossians 1:18).

Advancing and communicating the gospel to the entire world (Matthew 28:19; Acts 1:8; 2:42) is a command. Discipleship (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Timothy 2:2) and mutual accountability of all believers to each other (Matthew 18:5-14) is necessary and important.

There are two ordinances that have been committed to the local church: baptism and the Lord’s Supper (Acts 2:38-42).

THE JUDGMENTAll men are resurrected bodily, the saved to eternal life (John 6:39; Romans 8:10-11, 19-23; 2 Corinthians 4:14), and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Daniel 12:2; John 5:29; Revelation 20:13-15).

The resurrection of the unsaved dead to judgment will be a physical resurrection, whereupon receiving their judgment (John 5:28-29), they will be committed to an eternal conscious punishment in the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:11-15).