What's a Lutheran?
Not just the local church on "Prairie Home Companion." Our Lutheran history goes all the way back to 1517 when a local priest and professor of theology, Martin Luther, attached his list of 95 grievances to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany and ignited the Protestant Reformation. For almost 500 years, we've lived into Luther's legacy of reformation, and today we celebrate the fact that our God is a God of transformation and is always making us new and calling us to reform in ways that reflect God's grace to the whole world.
Our core belief is the incredibly good news that we are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone! Nothing we can do can make us more worthy of salvation, rather God's love for us (revealed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ) makes us worthy of salvation. As Lutherans, we believe that our personal relationship with Jesus Christ comes to us through God's grace which is poured out for us abundantly in the sacraments (Baptism and Holy Communion) which we receive with our brothers and sisters through the Church. In Baptism, where we are marked with the cross of Christ and receive the Holy Spirit, God promises our adoption into God's family forever. In Holy Communion, which we celebrate each week, we believe that Jesus Christ comes to us and abides with us physically in, with, and under the bread and wine of the meal we eat together. Through Holy Communion, our sins are forgiven and we are strengthened in faith and love and sent out into the world to show God's love and be Christ's presence in the world.
Our core belief is the incredibly good news that we are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone! Nothing we can do can make us more worthy of salvation, rather God's love for us (revealed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ) makes us worthy of salvation. As Lutherans, we believe that our personal relationship with Jesus Christ comes to us through God's grace which is poured out for us abundantly in the sacraments (Baptism and Holy Communion) which we receive with our brothers and sisters through the Church. In Baptism, where we are marked with the cross of Christ and receive the Holy Spirit, God promises our adoption into God's family forever. In Holy Communion, which we celebrate each week, we believe that Jesus Christ comes to us and abides with us physically in, with, and under the bread and wine of the meal we eat together. Through Holy Communion, our sins are forgiven and we are strengthened in faith and love and sent out into the world to show God's love and be Christ's presence in the world.
