WHAT WE BELIEVE
As a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
~We confess our faith in the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
~We confess our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
~We accept the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of our proclamation of faith and life.
~We accept the Apostles’, Nicene and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith.
~We accept 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.
~We accept the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord.
~We confess the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scripture 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.
