What is a Lutheran Church?

For us, the most important label is not “Lutheran” but “Beloved Child of God” – for that’s what we believe each person is.

We believe this is true regardless of sexual orientation, gender identification, race, culture, economic resources, immigration status, or anything else.

God’s love is unconditional. It does not depend on what we do for God, but what God does for us. We call this GRACE. We trust in God’s grace-filled Word for us.

We worship Jesus, the Word made Flesh, who taught that the greatest commandment is to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves.

We believe that Jesus comes to liberate us not only from personal sin but from everything that would oppress any human being: racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism- all the isms, all the powers that take life and diminish life.

Jesus comes to set us free so that we can work for the freedom of all.

We believe that Jesus really is present in Holy Communion, not just a memory.

We believe we cannot say that ALL LIVES MATTER if we are not willing to say that BLACK LIVES MATTER.

We believe that the state murdered Jesus on a cross because of his liberating work. We believe that Jesus rose from the dead because nothing can stop God’s liberating love.

We believe that Jesus’ Spirit lives and moves and transforms lives in and through the church- and beyond the church.