What We Believe

“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”

—Romans 5:6–11.

  • We walk together, we work together, we struggle together, we weep together and we rejoice together. Sometimes it can get really hard. We not only walk together, we have a common confession. This simply means: We say the same things! Together, we say “Jesus is LORD.” Together, we say: “This” is what it looks like to tell His story, to proclaim to everyone what He has done for us, to follow Him, and much more.

  • We share an unrelenting passion for God’s Word and the centrality of Jesus revealed in Scripture.

    Consider these words as just one example of why: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. —John 3:16–17.

  • We are convinced that our church rises or falls on one fact: that we are made right by Jesus, and that this gift comes to us through faith. This is not “advice,” this is NEWS, very GOOD news! And this news changes everything!

    “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’ — Romans 1:16-17

  • Being Lutheran is a distinct heritage, a story rooted in history and shaped by important events! Martin Luther, through his own STRUGGLE of asking “Who is God?” and “What do I think of Him?” was led to a moment which he describes this way:

    “At last meditating day and night, by the mercy of God, I began to understand that the righteousness of God is that through which the righteous live by a gift of God, namely by faith. Here I felt as if I were entirely born again and had entered paradise itself through the gates that had been flung open."

    — Preface to the Complete Edition of Luther's Latin Works (1545) by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546

    His “discovery” led to the ignition of a chain of events in the 1500s which we now call the Protestant Reformation, a time in the history of the world when everything began to change—again. Most notable for us, was when these reformers stood up in the midst of a boiling cauldron of political, social, and religious pressures and confessed their faith to Emperor Charles V, in Augsburg, in June of 1530. We now call that the Augsburg Confession.