Lutheranrca Journal (June 13,2018)

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WHAT LUTHERANS BELIEVE REFORMED LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA

THE BIBLE

JUNE 13, 2018

FAITH

Everything Lutherans believe

It is through faith in

comes from the Bible, God's

Jesus that we

message of love and hope for

receive the

all people. The Bible is the

forgiveness of sins

written Word of God, handed

and eternal life - by

down to us in order to point us to the truth that we are saved

believing that He

from our sin and eternal

has freed us from

death by the life, death, and

without error. In it we learn

the guilt,

resurrection of Jesus Christ.

everything we need to know

We believe that the Bible is

about God's love and His gifts

punishment, and

completely reliable and

to us.

power of sin. Faith is a gift worked in us by the power of the Holy Spirit; it doesn't

ABOUT GOD

come to us through

There is only one true God - the Triune God - who exists in three separate but equal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

anything we are capable of, but through what God does for us. We simply receive what

God the Father is our maker

keeps us in the one true faith,

and the creator of all things.

and equips us for living out

is already being

By the Father's word, all things

our faith. He is the whisper in

offered out of God's

were made, and we are His

our heart's ear.

great love.

most beloved creation; we are closest to His heart. The

There is absolutely nothing we

Son is Jesus Christ, who came

can do to "be saved" - Jesus

to earth as the perfect "go-

Christ has already done

between" between God and

everything necessary. In His

humanity. He has redeemed

death and resurrection,

us and is the voice to the

everyone who believes in

Father on our behalf. The Holy

Jesus as Savior has been

Spirit calls us to believe in

brought back into a right

Jesus Christ as our Savior,

relationship with God. That

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Lutheranrca Journal (June 13,2018) by Rev.Rolando Fernandez Benavidez - Issuu