We believe in God’s Word (the Bible) as the inerrant Word of God spoken and written by inspiration through His prophets and apostles.  What God has spoken and written is true and life-giving for all peoples, nations, tribes, and languages, and speaks truth and life in every time and place in history.  We also believe that the confessions of faith assembled in the Book of Concord (1580) are true expositions of God’s Word. 

 

God (the Holy Spirit) gathers us together as sheep under Christ’s care and brings us to His holy sanctuary—even our little church building.  Here we step outside of time and space into the very throne-room of God the Father in heaven to join with angels, archangels, and all the company of heaven, including believers who have gone on before us from every time and place, as well as all faithful believers in the one holy Christian Church, the Communion of Saints. 

 

There is only one Christian Church in the world, and one Gospel (Good News) of salvation, and they are created and found in the preaching and teaching of Christ crucified and risen from the dead, who (currently) lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit and is coming soon to make all things new and complete. 

 

He gathers us together to hear His Word, to be fed and nourished by it, to be strengthened by His sacraments (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper), and to build one another up as brothers and sisters, children of our heavenly Father.