Beliefs

We are Christians in the body of Christ and a confessing church.  We proclaim these statements as true:

Charity Lutheran Church Constitution:  Article II-B - Confession of Faith

The congregation confesses faith in the Triune God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;

  • In the Father, the creator and sustainer of the universe;
  • In the Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior who died and rose again for the redemption of a fallen humanity; and
  • In the Spirit, who calls, gathers, enlightens and sanctifies the Christian church and preserves it in union with Jesus Christ in the faith.

The congregation further accepts the canonical scripture of the Old and New Testaments as the divinely inspired, revealed, and inerrant Word of God and the only infallible authority in all matters of faith and life. 

As brief and true statements of the doctrine of the Word of God, the congregation accepts the following: The Apostolic, the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds; the Unaltered Augsburg Confession; Luther's Small Catechism; and the Book of Concord of 1580.
 

Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ: Our Statement of Faith

  • We believe, teach, and confess the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe, teach, and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe in him.
    • 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 in the person and work of Jesus Christ through whom God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself.
    • The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the 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.
  • We believe, teach, and accept the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the sole authoritative source and norm of our proclamation, faith, and life.
  • We accept the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the scriptural faith we believe, teach, and confess.
  • We believe, teach, and accept the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism as true witnesses to the Word of God, normative for our teaching and practice. We acknowledge that we are one in faith and doctrine with all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
  • We believe, teach, and confess the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord, namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid expositions of the Holy Scriptures.
  • We believe, teach, and confess 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 priesthood of all believers for God's mission in the world.

Click here to download the PDF of the LCMC Statement of Faith.