1) We Live by Grace

As a church in the Lutheran tradition, St. Paul's proclaims the radical grace of God at work in the world. Grace is not merely God’s favorable disposition; it is God’s decisive event: the unconditional verdict of the cross that ends our desperate self-justification and gives us new life. We believe that the love of God in Jesus Christ is an unearned promise so total that nothing we do (or fail to do) can separate us from it (Romans 8:31–39).

Because Christ has put an end to our need to earn a place before God, Christians are set completely free. We do not work to secure God’s favor or to build up our own righteousness. Instead, having been put to death by the Law and raised to life by the Gospel, we are turned outward, spontaneously freed to love, serve, and give ourselves away to our neighbors without counting the cost.

2) God Calls Us to Be Disciples 

What does this freedom look like in daily living? 

1. We are gathered in worship and prayer, where God continuously slays our pride through the Word and promises us life anew. 

2. We are thrust into the neighbor’s needs, discovering that Christ directs our attention away from managing our own spiritual standing and toward fulfilling the Law's demand to "Love God and love your neighbor as yourself." 

3. We are continuously undone and reformed by Scripture, open to having our assumptions dismantled as God’s Word meets us afresh each day. 

4. We are anchored by the story of God's unbending faithfulness, guided by Holy Scripture, confessing the ancient creeds, and affirming the Lutheran Confessions as clear witnesses to the radical Gospel that sets sinners free. 

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.