My Confession

I believe I'm a wretched sinner, but I'm also a sinner who's saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty. I believe in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord and Savior. I believe in the Holy Spirit. I believe in one God, Trinity in unity, and unity in Trinity.

I acknowledge and accept all the canonical books of the Old Testament and the New Testament as the divinely inspired and revealed Word of God.

I acknowledge and accept all the Confessional Writings of the Lutheran faith contained in the Book of Concord to be the true and genuine exposition of the doctrines of the Holy Bible.

In summary, I believe that the Scriptures of the Old Testament and the New Testament as the written, inspired, and inerrant Word of God and the only rule and norm of faith and practice.

In addition, I accept all the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as a true and unadulterated statement and exposition of the Word of God, to wit: the three Ecumenical Creeds (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed), the Augsburg Confession, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Large Catechism of Luther, the Small Catechism of Luther, and the Formula of Concord.

Finally, I believe that the Lord's Means of Grace for me and for you is found in His gracious gifts and signs to us, or through His divinely instituted ministry of the preaching of His Word and the administering of His Sacraments.