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Lutherans believe…

  • in the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit —Three equal Persons, yet still only one God. (Matthew 28: 19)
  • that the Bible is God’s own inerrant Word which calls us to faith in Jesus Christ.
    (2 Timothy 3: 15-17)
  • that all people are by nature born sinful; we lack both the will and the ability to please God with thoughts, words, or deeds. (Psalm 51: 5)

Lutherans believe…

  • that God, through His compassion and mercy for us, sent His own Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the price for the sins of all people through His suffering and death. (John 3: 26)
  • that everyone who repents of their sinfulness and trusts in Christ—in His sinless life, His sacrificial death, and His resurrection from the dead—will be saved from eternal death and damnation. (Romans 10: 9-10)
  • that Jesus is truly present today with His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation through His appointed means—the ways He chooses to deliver His gifts to us: the preaching of His Word, the forgiving our sins through Absolution, the promised blessings of Holy Baptism, and His true Body and Blood given to us in the Sacrament of the Altar, Holy Communion.
  • That our Lord Jesus Christ will return on the Last Day of Judgment and usher in an eternal age of blessedness for believers who will be resurrected bodily to eternal life.

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For further study:

The Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther
The Book of Concord
The “Belief and Practice” section of our Synod’s website