- We believe that God the Father is our Creator, Jesus Christ is our Savior, and the Holy Spirit is our Sanctifier bringing us to newness of life.
- We accept the Holy Scriptures as the divinely inspired record of God's redemptive act in Christ.
- We teach that all people are sinners and that a person is saved only by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
- We define the Church as the fellowship of those who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The Church is essential to Christian life and growth.
- We celebrate two Sacraments as the God-given means for penetrating our lives with His grace. These Sacraments are Baptism and Holy Communion.
- We live, not according to a formula of do's and don'ts, but in the freedom of Christian love and responsibility.
"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church...Now the Church is not wood or stone,
but the company of people who believe in Christ."
--Martin Luther
What Lutherans Believe
The Bible is the true revelation of God and the highest authority for Christian reference and witness.
John 5:24 – “Truly, truly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life.”
“Let the person who would hear God speak, read Holy Scripture…Scripture is God’s testimony concerning Himself.” - Martin Luther
God expresses his true heart, attitude and will toward us in Word and Sacrament.
Our two Sacraments are: Baptism. We are adopted and claimed children of God.
Communion. We are fed, nourished and revived.
Sacraments are actions in which the Word of God is embodied in visible earthly elements and through which we receive the forgiveness of sins and strengthening of our faith.
There is one true faith, one holy church.
John 17:20 – “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.”
Ephesians 4:4 – “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.”
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