St. Paul Lutheran Church 
Mission
Marked with the cross of Christ forever, we are claimed,
gathered, and sent for the sake of the world.
Confession of Faith of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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This church confesses the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
This church confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel
as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom
everything was made and through whose life, death, and
resurrection, God fashions a new creation.
The proclamation of God's message to us as both Law and Gospel
is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy through word
and deed, beginning with the Word in creation, continuing in the
history of Israel, and centering in all its fullness in the person and
work of Jesus Christ.
The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the
written Word of God. Inspired by God's Spirit speaking through
their authors, they record and announce God's revelation centering
in Jesus Christ. Through them God's Spirit speaks to us to create
and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world. This
church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its
proclamation, faith, and life. This church accepts the Apostles', Nicene,
and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith of this church.
This church accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness
to the Gospel, acknowledging as one with it in faith and doctrine all churches
that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Smalcald Articles and
the Treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, and the Formula
of Concord, as further valid interpretations of the faith of the Church.
This church confesses the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed
in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to
create and sustain the Church for God's mission in the world.
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