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Messiah Lutheran Church, a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, confesses the Triune God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  • This church confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel
    as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.

    • Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom
      everything was made and through whose life, death, and
      resurrection God fashions a new creation.
    • The proclamation of God’s message to us as both Law and
      Gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy
      through word and deed, beginning with the Word in creation,
      continuing in the history of Israel, and centering in all its fullness
      in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
    • The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the
      written Word of God. Inspired by God’s Spirit speaking through
      their authors, they record and announce God’s revelation
      centering in Jesus Christ. Through them God’s Spirit speaks to
      us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service
      in the world.
  • This church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New
    Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source
    and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.
  • This church accepts the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as
    true declarations of the faith of this church.
  • This church accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true
    witness to the Gospel, acknowledging as one with it in faith and
    doctrine all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the
    Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
  • This church accepts the other confessional writings in the Book of
    Concord, namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the
    Smalcald Articles and the Treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large
    Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid
    interpretations of the faith of the Church.
  • This church confesses the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scripture and
    confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional
    writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the Church for
    God’s mission in the world.

 

 

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