What We Believe

We believe the life of a Christian is summarized in a very simple way . . . Love God and Love Your Neighbor!  As God draws us in to a relationship with Him, we are led through life better able to love the people in our lives.

Everything we believe at Trinity Lutheran is founded on God's narrative as He reveals it to us through the Bible. This narrative continues today as God desires to gather all people in to His family, through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  

Lutheran Roots

Trinity Lutheran accepts and teaches the Bible-based teaching of Martin Luther that inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century. The teachings of Luther and the reformers can be summarized in three short phrases: Grace alone, Scripture alone, Faith alone.

Grace Alone

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.

Scripture Alone

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.

Faith Alone

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 this Good News and believe it have the eternal life that it offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives people forgiveness through him.

The word "Synod" in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod comes from the Greek word that means "walking together". It has rich meaning in our church body, because the congregations voluntarily choose to belong to the Synod. Diverse in their service, these congregations hold to a shared confession of Jesus Christ as taught in Holy Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions.

The Trinity

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod teaches and responds to the Triune God: the Father, creator of all that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God’s Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the Trinity are coequal and coeternal, one God.

Our Teaching on the Sacrament of Holy Communion

The Lord’s Supper at Trinity Lutheran Church is joyfully celebrated in accordance with the teachings of the Bible and the confessions of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. When we come to the table for Communion, we are making public witness to the Christian faith we hold in common.*

We believe . . .

All have sinned and are in need of God’s gracious forgiveness. All, therefore, need to examine themselves and confess their sins before the Lord.
Isaiah 59:12, Romans 6:23, 1 Corinthians 11:28, 1 John 1:6-2:2

Our Lord empowered and commanded His followers to declare and share the forgiveness of sins with those who repent and confess Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Matthew 18:18, John 20:23

Forgiveness of sins is assured to penitent sinners through Confession and Absolution and through the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
Matthew 26:26-28

We receive the very body and blood of Christ with the bread and wine when we receive theSacrament of the Altar.
Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:14-20, John 6:52-56, 1 Corinthians 10:16-17, 11:23-26

Eating and drinking this Holy Food unworthily (that is, frivolously, in disbelief, or in a state of impenitencefor sin) is a grave danger to life and faith.
1 Corinthians 11:23-29

Holy Communion is a family meal of baptized Christians who confess the same faithin the One True God.
Ephesians 4:3-6

*Our Pastors will be glad to discuss these or other matters of the Christian faith with you.