What We Believe
+ We believe the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. We believe and confess the three Ecumenical Creeds, namely the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds, as faithful testimonies to the truth of the Holy Scriptures, and we reject all the errors in which they condemn.
+ We believe and confess the Unaltered Augsburg Confession to be a true exposition of Holy Scripture and a correct exhibition of the doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Furthermore, we uphold that the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Small and Large Catechisms of Martin Luther, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, and the Formula of Concord are also in agreement with the one Scriptural faith. We accept the Confessions because they are drawn from the Word of God and on that account regard their doctrinal content as a true and binding exposition of Holy Scripture. These documents can be found by going to www.BookOfConcord.org
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