What is a Lutheran?
What do Lutherans Believe?
Lutherans are Christians who believe that all
Christian teachings should come from God’s Word, the Bible. We believe that the
Bible is God’s Word. This means that everything the Bible teaches is correct
and true. We believe Lutheransthat it is only through the Bible that we can
know the one true God – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – and His will
for our lives.
Lutherans believe in God’s grace.
All people are sinners and would perish eternally
without God’s help. The good news is that God has provided all of this help as
a free gift. Lutheran BeliefsGod’s saving grace is His undeserved love for all
people through the life, death and resurrection of His Son. God loves all
people, of every nation and race equally. It is God the Father’s desire for all
people to hear His Word, to believe in His Son, Jesus Christ, as their only
Savior, and therefore to have eternal life. Jesus lived a holy life in our
place and died on the cross for the forgiveness of all our sins. Through this
completed work of Jesus, God the Father sees the whole world as not guilty, or
justified. This teaching of “justification” is the central truth of the Bible.
Lutherans believe that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary
for eternal salvation.
This faith in Jesus, who is both God and man, our
Savior, comes only as God, the Holy Spirit, works through God’s Word and
Baptism in a person’s heart. We believe we sinners cannot come to faith through
our own power, but that our faith is accomplished only by the power of the Holy
Spirit as He connects us to Jesus as the Savior.
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