The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation is a Christian church and member church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). As Lutheran Christians, we confess the following:
- We believe in the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord and Savior.
- We trust the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
We believe that no one can separate us from the love of Christ. In the words of St. Paul: “Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:35, 37-39)
God gives grace by way of free gifts Christians call Sacraments, a theological word for God’s use of otherwise simple things like water and wine, bread and oil, caring hands and loving hearts, joined with God’s promise of unmerited and unrelenting love.