Our Faith

  Apostles Creed

  The Word

  The Sacrements

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  Our Faith

The faith shared by the members of St. Matthew Lutheran Church is above of all faith in Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. We believe that human experience is never complete without an ongoing friendship with the Lord Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus is characterized in the New Testament by words such as light, life, and truth. To say it another way: no one can have without Jesus what believers have with Jesus. That is why Jesus said, "No one comes to the Father but by me." As do most churches, we accept the ancient formulation known as the Apostles Creed as a reliable expression of Christian truth.



  The Apostles Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen


  The Word

The Lutheran Church has always stressed the Word of God. By this we mean Jesus Christ first of all, and the Bible also. Jesus is the Word who came into this world as God's ultimate message to us . Therefore we call him the Word (John 1). The Bible bears witness to Jesus, to God's work among all God's people who came before Jesus, and to the first generation of the Christian experience in the world. We believe that the Bible is an infallible guide for all matters of faith and life.



  The Sacraments

The Lutheran Church places great emphasis on two particular religious ceremonies called Sacraments (from a New Testament word meaning "mysteries".) Our view of Sacraments sets us apart from the Roman Catholic and Orthodox on one hand, and most Protestant churches on the other. We we do not put forth a series of seven sacraments (baptism, confirmation, marriage, ordination, the mass, the sacrament of the sick, confession and absolution), and we do not believe that anything special about the clergy causes the sacrament to be authentic. We hold that Baptism and Holy Communion are the two Sacraments initiated by Christ. Therefore we give them a status above all other rites. They involve something more than the spoken word -- a physical substance that becomes a means of God's communication of redemption. In Baptism the physical substance is water; in Holy Communion bread and wine. These sacraments communicate God's gracious acceptance to us. In the Third Century the great Christian thinker Augustine called the Sacraments "visible words."





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The Lutheran church is a Christian church that draws on the writings of Martin Luther, a renowned theologian, to shape its teaching and worship style.


As members of a Christian church, Lutherans use the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, our savior, as a model for their lives.


There are several organizational groups of Lutherans in the United States. St. Matthew church is a member congregation of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America), the largest of these.