What We Believe

Our Public Confession of Faith

• We renounce the devil and all his works and all his ways. 

• We believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

• We believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

• We believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

• We hold all the canonical books of the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, and we hold the doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, drawn from the Bible, as we have learned to know it from Luther's Small Catechism, to be true and correct.

• We intend to continue steadfast in the confession of this Church, and suffer all, even death, rather than fall away from it.

• We intend faithfully to conform all our lives to the rule of the divine Word, to be diligent in the use of the means of grace, to walk as it becometh the Gospel of Christ, and in faith, word, and deed to remain true to the Triune God, even unto death.