Our Confession

Our Lutheran Faith and Beliefs

Faith is another word for trust. Everyone trusts in something.

Sky divers trust in their parachutes to keep them from hitting the ground at a high rate of speed. People who pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy trust in their pharmacist to not give them a bottle of poison. Even atheists, who claim to have no faith, trust in their intellect to give them a sense of self-sufficiency.

What about Christians? What do we trust in? We trust in Jesus Christ to save us from hell and give us eternal life in heaven as a free gift apart from any merit or worthiness in us. This trust in Jesus that we have does not come from us. It too is a gift from God. He gave it to us when we heard and believed that, for the sake of Jesus, all our sins are forgiven.
This announcement of forgiveness is good news to those who know they have fallen short, who know that they are not the people that they should be, who know they have hurt others. It is good news even to those who think that they have done and said things that God would never forgive.

How can this be? Jesus. God in the flesh, came into this world to forgive you and thereby set you free from shame, from guilt, and free from eternal death. You are forgiven. This good word from Jesus is for all who admit their need for forgiveness, and trust that what Jesus did here on earth, His living, His dying on the cross, and His rising from the dead, actually provides that forgiveness, covering anyone, and everyone who believes – even you. And that’s the truth.

This good news comes to us by way of God’s Holy Word, the Bible. As God’s Word, the Holy Bible is true and inerrant, therefore, it too is something that we trust in. The Bible is God’s Word to mankind, and it demands a confessional response – meaning – whenever you hear or read the Bible – God asks you, “What do you believe concerning this?” Thehistoric Christian Church, in order to answer the question, “What is it exactly that you believe the Bible teaches?” has formulated three, orthodox, that is, approved, confessions of faith: The Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church holds to and confesses these creeds as her own. To read these creeds, please click on the respective links.

Additionally, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, holds to the confessions of the unaltered Book of Concord of 1580. We do so because it rightly confesses what the Bible teaches. To read an online version of the Book of Concord, please click on the following link.

For those who don’t have time to read the aforementioned documents, the following will give you a well-rounded summary of what we believe, teach, and confess: