Our Beliefs
God created human beings and tells us how he wants us to live.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Luke 10:27
God is Triune, three persons in one God, one God in three persons.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19
We have failed to live as God told us.
He has every right to punish us for our sin and rebellion.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23
The wages of sin is death.
Romans 6:23
No one will get to heaven by his or her own efforts or accomplishments.
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law.
Romans 3:20
All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Galatians 3:10
God is loving and merciful. He sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to save us.
Jesus Christ did everything that was necessary to save us.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
1 Peter 3:18
Jesus Christ is both God and man in one person.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1,14
Jesus died on the cross and paid for the sins of all people.
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2
Jesus rose from the dead on the third day.
He is truly God, and he completed our salvation.
He was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 1:4
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Romans 4:25
Salvation is received by believing and trusting in Jesus as Savior.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8,9
Faith in Jesus is not something we can create or choose for ourselves.
God the Holy Spirit creates faith within a person.
No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:3
The Holy Spirit uses the good news of Jesus (the gospel) to create faith.
The gospel comes to us in the Bible, in baptism, and in the Lord’s Supper.
Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
Romans 10:17
He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5
Take and eat; this is my body . . . Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 26:26,28
Believers love God and are grateful to God for his salvation.
Believers gather for worship and desire to serve God with their lives.
Do not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:25
Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.
ephesians 5:2
For a fuller statement of our beliefs, and the beliefs of our church body, visit the WELS.