What We Believe

Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism. Protestantism is a form of Christianity that originated with the Reformation in the 16th-century. The Reformation was a movement led by protesters against what they perceived as errors in the Roman Catholic Church.

Lutheranism was founded by Martin Luther, a 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic church launched the Protestant Reformation. 

The Lutheran church has nonetheless retained many of the liturgical practices and sacramental teachings of the pre-Reformation Western Church, with particular emphasis on the Eucharist.

The central point of Lutheranism lies in the doctrine of justification which means that our church teaches that we as Christians can only be saved from our sins by God's grace, through faith and on the basis of the Scriptures.

We Believe that...

• God approaches us as Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier
• God is Triune: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• God has created everything
• God became one of us through his Son, and he is present in the Holy Spirit
• God works in and throughout creation, history and world events, encountering us personally.

The Bible, the sacred book of all Christians

• is the standard by which all the Church's teachings are established
• is a record of what people have seen, heard and believed and, thus, combines both divine and human perspectives
• reveals God’s will
• calls us to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.