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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