About Us
What We Believe
"Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace."
Colossians 3:15
Here you will find a small sample of the beliefs which Faith Lutheran Church professes. Please inquire with the pastor if you would like to learn more!
Faith Lutheran Church is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, with nearly 2 million baptized members in some 6,000 congregations coast to coast, is a mission-oriented, Bible-based, confessional Christian denomination headquartered in St. Louis. Through acts of witness and mercy, the church carries out its mission worldwide to make known the love of Jesus Christ (lcms.org).
Are you interested in learning more about the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod? Visit https://www.lcms.org/about.
Jesus Christ
Faith Lutheran Church believes that Jesus Christ is both true God and true man. As the second Person of the Trinity, He is both equal with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, yet distinct from them - one God in three Persons. His birth, life, miracles, death, and resurrection all serve to fulfill the Old Testament promises that God would save His people.
The Trinity
Faith Lutheran Church believes in the mystery of the Triune God: God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Co-equal and co-eternal, they are the Three in One - one God, yet three distinct Persons.
Salvation
We believe that Jesus Christ, by His perfect life, His willing death, and His glorious and bodily resurrection, secured for us salvation from the power of sin and death. We believe that God desires all people to be saved. It is faith in Jesus as the Son of God and Savior of the world that opens the door to eternal life, a faith that is received by the grace of God through the hearing of Scripture.
The Bible
Faith Lutheran Church accepts and acknowledges all the canonical books of the Bible as the inspired and trustworthy Word of God and the only infallible authority in all matter of faith and life. The Bible is God's Word, containing both Law and Gospel to reveal our sinful nature as wells as our redemption through Christ our Savior.
The Creeds
We believe that in reciting the creeds (The Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed) we join with nearly 2,000 years of Christian history in confessing the essential and unchanging truths of our faith. Much as when they were each first written, the creeds help guide and guard us from unorthodox doctrine that would threaten to shake our faith in Christ.
The Lutheran Confessions
Faith Lutheran stands with the LCMS in believing "the symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church [are] a true and unadulterated statement and exposition of the Word of God. We accept the Lutheran Confessions as articulated in the Book of Concord of 1580 because they are drawn from the Word of God, and on that account we regard their doctrinal content as a true and binding exposition of Holy Scripture...."(lcms.org).