Our Beliefs
At St Luke Lutheran:
We believe in the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe that God made the world and all things in a literal six days and rested on the seventh. We believe that He created all mankind, that He made them male and female, and that He united that one man and one woman into one flesh in Holy Matrimony. We reject all doctrines of our debased culture that would claim otherwise about our Creator or His creation.
We believe that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, was born of a virgin, lived a perfect and sinless life, and suffered the wrath of God as our substitute and died to atone for the sins of the whole world. We believe that He rose on the third day, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and lives today ruling and reigning over all things. He will come again in judgment on the Last Day. We believe that we are saved by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from works of the law and that there is no salvation apart from faith in Jesus. We reject all doctrines of our idolatrous world that would embrace a pluralistic path to salvation.
We believe that the Holy Spirit calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies all believers through the external word and sacraments in the Holy Christian Church. We believe that the Bible is the true, inspired, infallible, inerrant, efficacious, and awesome word of God. We believe that baptism -- as the gift and work of God -- saves us (washes us, buries us with Christ, regenerates, gives us new birth, gives us faith), and this promise is for all people, including and especially infants. We believe that the body and blood of Christ are truly present under the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper, and that this meal is given for the forgiveness of sins. We reject all doctrines that confess that man cooperates in any way to his own salvation.
We are a congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and hold to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the other nine documents included in the 1580 Book of Concord because they are right expositions on the only rule and norm of our faith, Holy Scripture. We believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Sola Scriptura. Sola Fide. Sola Gratia. Solus Christus. Soli Deo Gloria.
Our Beliefs About Holy Communion
The Lord’s Supper is the true Body and
Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ for repentant sinners to eat and drink.
By communing at the altar at St. Luke, you are publicly professing that you are in full agreement with the faith
that is believed, taught, and confessed by this congregation. Therefore, in
accordance with our Lord’s command, our congregation and the LCMS practice closed communion (Matt. 26:26-28; 1 Cor. 11:27-30; 1 Cor. 10:15-17).
If you are
not a member of this or another LCMS congregation, if you are persisting in
unrepentant sin, or if you have excluded yourself from the Supper for more than
six months, please refrain from communing on your visit.
Instead, it would be our great joy to have you speak with Pastor, receive the absolution and/or instruction in the faith, and to join us in communion at this altar on another day very soon.
If you are interested in receiving forgiveness, life, and salvation
through this, the Lord’s most Holy Supper, and in learning more about the
Lutheran faith, please speak with Pastor Gray. You can reach him by calling the church office, (574) 946-3501.
