Confession and Purpose

Confession of Faith
This Congregation:

  1. Confesses the Triune God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  2. 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 in the person and work of Jesus Christ through whom God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself.
    • 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 in the world.
  3. Accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.
  4. Accepts the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith of this congregation.
  5. Believes, teaches, and accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism as true witnesses to the Word of God, normative for its teaching and practice. It acknowledges as one with it in faith and doctrine all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
  6. Believes, teaches and confesses the other confessional writings in teh Book of Concord, namely the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Aricles, the Treatise, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid expositions of the Holy Scriptures.
  7. Believes, teaches, and 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 priesthood of all believers for God’s mission in the world.

Statement of Purpose

  1. The Church is a people created by God in Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit, called and sent to bear witness to God’s creative, redeeming, and sanctifying activity in the world.
  2. To participate in God’s mission, this congregation as a part of the church shall proclaim and propagate the Christian faith through the Means of Grace, and cooperate in the work and service of Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ.