1) We Live by Grace

As a church in the Lutheran tradition, St. Paul's people emphasize the grace of God at work in the world. Grace is God's favorable disposition towards sinners. We believe that the love of God for humanity is so vast and all-encompassing that there is nothing people can do (or fail to do) that will overshadow or take away that love (Romans 8:31-39).

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As Lutherans, we believe that Christians are free to love and serve the world in response to this gift of grace. We don't have to earn God's love, but, having been loved so unconditionally, we strive to reflect that love to our neighbors and community. 

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2) God Calls Us to Be Disciples 

What does this look like in daily living?

1. We worship together and pray for one another.

2. We pay attention to what Jesus describes as the greatest commandment: "Love God, and love your neighbors as yourself."

3. We are committed to deepen our faith through continued learning together. We are open to being challenged and invited by God to continue to discover that the journey of faith has no ending point.

4. We are guided by the Bible, reliable words that tell the story of the relationship between God and the world, and we confess the ancient creeds of the church, and affirm the Lutheran Confessions as accurate explainations and witnesses of scripture.

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.