What We
Believe...
.......................................
At Holy
Spirit what we believe is
very important to our
community and to our faith
life.
1. We
confess the Triune God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2. We confess
Jesus Christ as Lord and
Savior and the Gospel as the
power of God for the
salvation of all who believe.
- Jesus Christ
is the Word of God incarnate,
through whom everything was
made and through whose life,
death, and resurrection God
fashions a new creation.
- The
proclamation of God's message
is to us as both Law and
Gospel is the Word of God,
revealing judgment and mercy
through word and deed,
beginning with the Word in
creation, continuing in the
history of Israel, and
centering in all its fullness
in the person and work of
Christ.
- The
canonical Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments are
the written Word of God.
Inspired by God's Spirit
speaking through their
authors, they record and
announce God's revelation
centering in Jesus Christ.
Through them God's Spirit
speaks to us to create and
sustain Christian faith and
fellowship for service in the
world.
3. This
church accepts the canonical
Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments as the inspired
Word of God and the
authoritative source and norm
of its proclamation, faith
and life.
4. This
church accepts the Apostle's,
Nicene, and Athanasian Creed
as true declarations of the
faith of this church.
5. This
church accepts the Unaltered
Augsburg Confession as a true
witness to the Gospel,
acknowledging as one with it
in faith and doctrine all
churches that likewise accept
the teachings of the
Unaltered Augsburg
Confession.
6. This
church accepts the other
confessional writings in the
Book of Concord, namely, the
Apology of the Augsburg
Confession, the Smalcald
Articles and the Treatise,
the Small Catechism, the
Large Catechism, and the
Formula of Concord, as
further valid interpretations
of the faith of the Church.
7. This
church confesses the Gospel,
recorded in the Holy
Scriptures and confessed in
the ecumenical creeds and
Lutheran confessional
writings, as the power of God
to create and sustain the
Church for God's mission in
the world.
