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WABC Logo Explanation

It is everywhere around the church. It appears on our published materials, printed on coffee cups, sewn into floor mats, etched into glass panels, even laid out in brickwork and carved into permanent outdoor signs.

What is this strange three-colored triangle with its eye-fish-dove symbols? It has two major representations: our God and our community.

Matthew 22:36-40

Jesus gave us the basis for the Wheeler triangle. Two days before His crucifixion, a Pharisee asked Him a question. The question and His response are here:

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Two representations

Our God and our community

What Jesus called the fundamental principles of our relationship to God became the mission of Wheeler: to worship God and to love others.

The triangular logo represents both our Lord and our neighborhood. It is three-sided and tripartite, signifying the triune nature of God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

All three of these are conjoined within the triangle, testifying to the oneness of the Trinity, "three in one." That is the basis of our worship of God.

Gold

The Father

The top partition is gold and contains an all-seeing eye, representing the Father: royalty, omniscience, and the top of the Trinity.

Red

The Son

The lower left partition is red and contains a fish, representing the Son, Whose blood redeems us all. The fish, ichthus in Greek, was an ancient Christian symbol.

Blue

The Holy Spirit

The lower right partition is blue, the color of truth, and the dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit, the indwelling presence of God Who teaches truth with power.

Our service to the neighborhood also began triangular. The area in which the church is located is a triangle bounded by Main Street to the west, the Gulf Freeway to the east, and Old Spanish Trail to the south or at the bottom of our triangle.

We radiate beyond that triangle, but are especially dedicated to those who surround us. So there is a great deal of significance to that "strange triangle."

Bill Lawson

Founding Pastor Emeritus, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church

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