What We Believe
As Lutherans, we believe, teach, and confess
the historic Christian faith, which the Holy Spirit delivered
to the Church in Holy Scripture. Because it is God’s Word,
Scripture (the Bible) is entirely trustworthy and without error.
Thus, on the basis of Holy Scripture, we joyfully and boldly confess:
- God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit earnestly desires the salvation of all people from death and hell, for all people are poor miserable sinners. (John 3:16)- The Lord Jesus Christ, who is true God with the Father and the Holy Spirit and also true man, is the heart and center of the Scripture and of our faith. (Luke 24:45-47)
- Salvation is through Christ alone. By His sacrificial death upon the cross, Jesus Christ has earned forgiveness of sins for the whole world. (John 14:6; Acts 4:12)
- Salvation is by grace alone. This salvation from death and hell, which has been won for all people by Jesus’ death and resurrection from the dead, is the gift of God and is in no way earned by any actions or works or merit on the part of us sinners. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
- Salvation is by faith alone. This salvation, which gives eternal life, is received only by those who believe and trust in Jesus’ sacrificial death for their sins. (Galatians 2:16; 3:10-14)- Salvation is bestowed through the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper and through the preaching of the Word. (Titus 3:5; Matthew 26:27-28; Romans 10:17; John 20:22)
As Lutherans, we confess the historic creeds of the Church: The Apostles’, The Nicene, and The Athanasian Creed. These creeds are pure and faithful summaries of the doctrine of Scripture.
We subscribe without reservation to the Lutheran symbolical writings contained in The Book of Concord of 1580, confessing them to be true and unadulterated statements and expositions of the Word of God.
Our worship is reverent, shaped by the traditional and historic forms handed on to us from the Church of generations past.
Those who are received as communicant members of this congregation are first instructed in the teaching of Luther’s Small Catechism and publicly confess that the catechism is faithful and true to Holy Scripture.
