What We Believe

The Scriptures, The Creeds, and The Lutheran Confessions

We believe that the Holy Bible is God's inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word. That means that the books of the Old and New Testaments were written by God through His Prophets and Apostles. We believe that this divine Word can never lead us astray, and that the Bible is the highest and final rule and norm for Christian faith and practice.

With the whole Christian church throughout the ages, we confess the three Ecumenical Creeds (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) to be faithful witnesses to the Christian truth revealed by God in His Word.

As Confessional Lutherans, we also hold to the historic Lutheran Confessions as articulated in the Book of Concord of 1580 because they are drawn from God's Word and faithfully teach and explain God's Word.

We rejoice in God's gifts of Holy Baptism and the Lord's Supper, which are the two sacraments instituted by Christ for His church to carry out until His coming again at the end of days. We believe that Baptism is God's work, where the Father makes us His own through new birth of the water and the Word, uniting us to Christ's death and resurrection, and sanctifying us with His Holy Spirit. We believe that the Lord's Supper is Christ's true body and blood, given and shed for the forgiveness of sins. According to Christ's own command and the teaching and practice of His Apostles, this body and blood is given to those who have been properly instructed in the meaning and purpose of the Sacrament.

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