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What is a Lutheran?
Our congregation is made up of many members from various religious backgrounds. We are united with all other Christians in that:
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we accept the Bible as the true source of Christian love guidance and doctrine.
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anyone can receive, through faith, God's divine gifts.
Martin Luther and the Forming of the Lutheran Church
Martin Luther was the leader of the Reformation in 1517. Luther had a God-given gift to fully understand the Scripture. With this understanding he felt that church teachings and practices were not right. He wrote 95 Theses for discussion which, in turn, were nailed to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517 and word spread across Germany in the weeks that followed. Many people followed him. The Holy Roman Emperor wasn't happy with him and days later Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic church. There after, he continued to preach and write about Scripture, and so became the beginning of the Lutheran faith.To learn more about Martin Luther and the Lutheran Church click here. Once in that site click on "Our Roots".
Our Confession of Faith
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This congregation confesses the Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- This congregation confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
- Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
- The proclamation of God's message to us as both Law and Gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy through word and deed, beginning with the Word in creation, continuing in the history of Israel, and centering in all its fullness in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
- The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the written Word of God. Inspired by God's Spirit speaking through their authors, they record and announce God's revelation centering in Jesus Christ. Through them God's Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.
- This congregation accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired word of God and the authoritative source and and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.
- This congregation accepts the Apostle's, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith of this synod.
- This congregation accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness to the gospel, acknowledging as one with it in faith and doctrine all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
- This congregation accepts the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord, namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles and the Treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid interpretations of the faith of the Church.
- This congregation confesses the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the Church for God's mission in the world.
To learn more about Lutherans and their faith click here. This will take you the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) site.
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