Our Church
Our Beliefs
We come together in common belief, and it is these beliefs that our ministry is based on.
We are a part of the one, holy and catholic church and a member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Therefore, we confess the Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior and that the Gospel is the power of God for Salvation to all who believe.
We confess that Jesus Christ is the Word of God that became flesh and lived among us, full of Grace and Truth (John 1:14). Jesus is the living word through whom everything was made and through whose death and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
We regard the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of our proclamation, faith and life. These Scriptures record and announce God’s revelation centered in Jesus Christ. Through them, God’s Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain saving Faith, Hope and Love.
We accept the Apostle’s Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed as true declarations of the faith of this congregation. We also accept the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness to the Gospel as well as the other confessional writings contained in the Book of Concord, namely, the Apology to the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles and the treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, and the formula of Concord.
We believe, teach and confess that the words of Jesus recorded in the twentieth chapter of John, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you” are addressed to us just as surely as they were addressed to the followers of Jesus in his day. We believe that we are compelled by this Gospel to go forth and confess this Gospel for the sake of the people of the world for whom Christ died and rose again.
