What do Lutherans believe?
• Baptism – We believe that through the waters of baptism God comes to us and claims us as God’s own children, giving us the gift of new life. We affirm, and practice, the baptism of infants. • The 10 Commandments – We believe that the 10 Commandments are God’s guidelines for our life both in our relationship toward God and our relationship toward others around us. The first 3 Commandments refer to our relationship with God: recognizing that true loyalty belongs to God alone, that one should use the name of God only in a respectful manner, and that we need to keep a day to have the time and opportunity for worship of God. The last 7 Commandments refer to one’s relationship with one’s neighbor. We are to revere our parents as we do God, not to desire to harm to our neighbor, nor be an accessory to it, nor give opportunity for it; to willingly leave to our neighbor what is his/hers, and promote and protect whatever may be profitable and serviceable to him/her, as we wish he/she would do
God reveals himself to us in many and various ways. The beautiful complexity of nature is but one evidence of His existence. Also, God has revealed himself to us through prophets, priests and writers of the Old and New Testament books in the Bible. Lutheran faith, (named after the 16th century monk Dr. Martin Luther, who led the reformation against the Roman Catholic church) is based on God’s revelation in His Word and finds its truths therein. (Return to Main Page) We believe that God created this world and it was good (Genesis 1). Unfortunately, as humans, we abused the freedom God gave us and broke our right and eternal relationship with him (Gen. 3). Since that time we have experienced a deathly existence without true peace in any relationships because of our separation from God (Rom. 3:23). Nevertheless, our creator loved us and sent his one and only son Jesus into this world to fix our damaged relationships. He taught his followers many doctrines including the importance of bapti
