About Us

 Martin Luther inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century. The teaching of Luther and the reformers can be summarized in three phrases: Grace alone, Faith alone, Scripture alone.

• Grace Alone (sola gratia): God loves the people of the world, even though they are sinful, rebel against Him and do not deserve His love. He sent Jesus, His Son, to love the unlovable and save the ungodly.
• Faith Alone (sola fide): By His suffering and death as the substitute for all people of all time, Jesus purchased and won forgiveness and eternal life for them. Those who hear and believe this Good News have the eternal life that it offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives people forgiveness through Him.
• Scripture Alone (sola scriptura): The Bible is God’s inerrant and infallible Word, in which He reveals His Law and His Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ. It is the sole rule and norm for Christian doctrine.

We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments to be the full record of God’s self-disclosure to humankind. Different men, while writing according to their own styles and personalities, were supernaturally moved along by the Holy Spirit to record God’s very words, inerrant in the original writings. Therefore, those applying themselves to study its literal, historical-grammatical context can accurately understand God’s Word. Scripture is fully trustworthy as our final and sufficient authority for all of life (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

We believe in the one living and true God, eternally (John 17:3) existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20). Each member of the Godhead, while executing distinct but complementary roles in redemptive history, has precisely the same nature, attributes, and being, and is equally worthy of the same glory and honor and obedience (John 1:1-4; Acts 5:3-4).

We believe that God created humankind—male and female—in His own image and likeness, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship. Tempted by Satan, but in the sovereign plan of God, humans freely chose to disobey God, bringing sin, death, and condemnation to all humankind.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as the substitutionary atonement in our place, and that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. This salvation is freely given by God and not earned by our works and grants us eternal life with Jesus in heaven.

We believe that Christian baptism is a public declaration of the believer’s salvation in Christ through the Holy Spirit, identifying with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection . Once you give your life to Christ, you are not guaranteed an easy life, jut you are guaranteed that God will stand with you against all enemies. The Lord’s Supper is the united commemoration by believers of Christ’s death until He comes and should be preceded by a careful self-examination (Acts 2:41; Romans 6:3-6; 1 Corinthians 11:20-29).

 I
 believe
 in 
God, 
the 
Father 
Almighty,
 maker 
of 
heaven
 and 
earth.

 And 
in 
Jesus
 Christ,
 His 
only 
Son, 
our 
Lord, 
who 
was 
conceived 
by
the
 Holy 
Spirit, 
born 
of 
the
 virgin
 Mary,
 suffered
 under 
Pontius 
Pilate, 
was 
crucified,
 died
 and
 was 
buried. 
He
 descended 
into 
hell. 
The 
third
 day 
He 
rose 
again
 from
 the 
dead. 
He 
ascended 
into 
heaven
 and 
sits 
at 
the 
right 
hand 
of 
God 
the 
Father 
Almighty. 
From
 thence 
He 
will
 come
 to 
judge
 the 
living 
and
 the 
dead. 

I 
believe
 in 
the 
Holy
 Spirit, 
the 
holy 
Christian 
Church,
 the
 communion 
of 
saints, 
the
 forgiveness 
of 
sins, 
the
 resurrection
 of 
the 
body, 
and 
the 
life 
everlasting.


Amen. 

Matthew 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a load voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

1 Peter 3:18b-20a

"...that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey..."

Jesus took the sins of the world for all time on His shoulders and died with them. He HAD to be forsaken by His Father because God is a Holy God. "Holy" means separate. God cannot be with His Son while Jesus WAS the SINS of the world. 

Thanks be to God that our Savior, Jesus Christ, was willing to give up His relationship with His Father for a time. Jesus proclaimed His sacrifice to those dead in prison (hell), then His resurrection broke the power of sin for all of us.