We believe in the one Triune God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  

A example of our liturgy from one of our recent services.

We are a liturgical church.  That means that our worship service follows a certain regular structure. Literally “liturgy” means “the work of the people.”  Our liturgy is our work in worshiping and honoring God.  Although the themes and specific content changes throughout the church year, every Sunday during worship we read from the bible, sing hymns, receive holy communion, and hear a sermon where themes from the bible are connected with our daily lives.  To get a better understanding of what that means and what that looks like, join us for worship or view one of our recent services on our Youtube channel.

We are a confessional church.  Confession is an important part of our religion.  We confess corporately (together as a congregation) as a regular part of our liturgy, and privately through prayer. Confession clears the air and helps us to prepare to worship.  Unconfessed guilt and sin build up and weigh us down.  Hiding and denying sin is destructive to human life.  Part of the order of corporate confession in our liturgy includes absolution or forgiveness of our sins.

We hold to Luther’s “three Solas:”

  • Sola gratia- by grace alone means that a Christian receives salvation solely by the sovereign will of God without any human input or action.

  • Sola fide- by faith alone means that a Christian becomes righteous in the sight of God solely through faith and trust in Christ apart from the works of the law.

  • Sola scriptura- Scripture alone means that the Bible is the final authority for all church teachings.  We hold that the canonical Scriptures are the written Word of God, inspired by God’s Spirit that record and announce God’s love and salvation.  Through them God’s Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world. 

Or, in sum:

  • Solus Christus Jesus Christ is the sole base of the Christian hope of salvation.  We believe that Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom all things were made and through whose life, death and resurrection God fashions a new creation.  

We confess the three ecumenical creeds, statements of what we believe: the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds, as well taking firm guidance from the Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, as a true witness to the Gospel.

Within the Christian family, Lutherans place special emphasis on the conviction that we cannot obtain forgiveness of sin and righteousness before God by our own merits or works (sola gratia above).  We receive forgiveness of sin and become righteous before God by God’s grace alone, through faith (Romans 3:28), when we believe that Christ suffered and died for us, and that for his sake our sin is forgiven and righteousness and eternal life are given to us.  God will regard and reckon this faith as righteousness (Romans 3:21–26 and 4:5).