United Lutheran Church is a Christ-centered, Bible-believing fellowship of disciples in God’s universal Church:
- Rooted within one, historical Christian Church which finds its center in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Grounded in the Word of God
- Kindred in Spirit with the local congregations that comprise the world-wide family of Christ
We believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God and is the source and norm of all faith and Christian life.
We believe in the Triune God – One divine substance and three unique persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20).
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, fully God and fully man. He is the only one by whom men have salvation and eternal life (John 14:6).
We believe that our salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone – not of our own working, but a gift of God (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Our purpose and mission are to proclaim and propagate the Christian faith through the Means of Grace – Word and Sacrament. We endeavor to nurture the members of the congregation towards growth in the faith and in discipline and to be witnesses for the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the goal of making disciples.
All power in the congregation has its source in the Word of God, which is the norm for its faith and life. We recognize our unity in Christ and our common practice in the Christian faith: responding in faith to the call of the Holy Spirit through the Gospel, confessing and worshipping the Triune God, and witnessing to all, that in Jesus Christ, God graciously saves those who believe.
We accept all the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments as a whole and in all their parts as the divinely inspired, revealed, and inerrant Word of God, and we submit to the Word of God as the only infallible authority in all matters of faith and practice.
As brief and true statements of the doctrines of the Word of God, the congregation accepts and confesses the following symbols, the ancient ecumenical creeds: The Apostolic, the Nicene, and the Athanasian; the Unaltered Augsburg Confession; and Luther’s Small Catechism.
As further elaboration of and in accord with these Lutheran symbols, the congregation also receives the other documents in the Book of Concord of 1580: The Apology, Luther’s Large Catechism, the Smalcald Articles, and the Formula of Concord, and recognizes them as normative for its theology.
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord;
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit;
Born of the virgin Mary;
Suffered under Pontius Pilate;
Was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell;
The third day he rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven;
And is seated on the right hand of God the Father
Almighty;
From where He shall come to judge the living
and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit;
the holy Christian Church,
the Communion of saints;
the Forgiveness of sins;
the Resurrection of the body,
and the Life everlasting. Amen.
The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God,
begotten of His Father before all worlds,
God of God, Light of Light,
very God of very God,
begotten, not made,
being of one substance with the Father;
by whom all things were made;
who for us, and for our salvation,
came down from heaven,
and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary,
and was made man,
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
He suffered and was buried;
and the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures;
and ascended into heaven,
and is seated on the right hand of the Father;
and He shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the
dead;
Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son;
who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified;
who spoke by the Prophets.
And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins;
and I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.