- The entire Bible, which points to Jesus as the Savior, is the inspired and errorless Word of God. It is God's message of love and hope for all people.
- There is only one true God, who exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- God is the creator of everything that exists.
- Adam and Eve, our first parents, were originally created by God pure and holy. They lived according to God's will, doing what was pleasing to Him.
- Adam and Eve, the man and woman God created in the beginning, went against God's will and brought sin into the world. Since that time, all people have been conceived and born in sin.
- Sin is living out of relationship with God, not living according to God's will, and thus transgressing His holy will in thought, word, and deed.
- People cannot restore themselves by their good works or restore themselves to a right relationship with God.
- God sent His Son, Jesus, into the world. He is both true God and true man. He lived to fulfill God's law for us, died on the cross to pay the penalty our sins deserved, and rose from the dead so that we might have eternal life. He ascended into heaven, where He now sits at the right hand of The Father to intercede for us.
- Because of Jesus' death on the cross, God declares a person just or righteous and forgiven. This happens not because of human effort, but because the justification won by Jesus is applied to the one who believes in Jesus as Savior.
- Faith in Jesus is a gift of God, given by the power of the Holy Spirit; thus all the glory belongs to God.
- The means of grace are the Word, Holy Baptism, and Holy Communion. By these means, the merits of Jesus' perfect life and atoning death are personally conveyed to all who believe in Jesus as their Savior.
- The Bible is the true, inspired Word of God. The Holy Spirit is living and active in His Word, creating and sustaining faith in those who hear it. Jesus is the Word made flesh for us.
- In Holy Baptism, God is actively making fallen sinners into His dear, beloved children. Baptism is not a work or decision of man, it is completely the work of God, in which He washes our sins away and claims us for His own. In Baptism we are truly joined with Jesus in His death and resurrection, as St. Paul says in Romans 6:1-8.
- Holy Communion gives Christians the closest possible encounter we can have with God in this world. Along with the bread and the wine, we truly receive the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Lord’s Supper. This mystical experience of receiving Jesus Christ is the greatest union a Christian can know with God. We also recognize, as St. Paul writes in I Corinthians 11:27, that those who receive the Lord’s Supper unworthily sin against the body and blood of the Lord, so we ask visitors to speak with the pastor before communing to make sure no one is “eating and drinking judgment upon himself”, as St. Paul warns in I Corinthians 11:29.
- Jesus will come again to take all believers to Himself. On the final day, all the dead will be raised. Those who are still alive will be bodily transformed. After this, the final judgment will take place. Unbelievers will go into eternal damnation, and believers into eternal life.
- The true Christian church is made up of all believers of all times who believe in the Triune God and in Jesus Christ as their only Savior.
- God wants Christians to join with other believers in churches which correctly teach God's Word and administer Holy Baptism and Holy Communion according to the teachings of Scripture.
- Christians are called to tell others that the only way to salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ and to show their faith by their deeds of love toward others.
