Overview
St. John’s Lutheran Church is a congregation of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. With the universal Christian Church, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod teaches
and responds to the love of the Triune God: the Father, creator of all
that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die
for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the
ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates
faith through God's Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the
Trinity are coequal and coeternal, one God.
Being " Lutheran," our congregations accept and teach Bible-based teachings of Martin Luther
that inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century. The teaching of Luther and the reformers can be summarized in
three short phrases: Grace alone, Faith alone, Scripture alone.
 Grace Alone
God
loves the people of the world, even though they are sinful, rebel
against Him and do not deserve His love. He sent Jesus, His Son, to love
the unlovable and save the ungodly.
Faith Alone
By
His suffering and death as the substitute for all people of all time,
Jesus purchased and won forgiveness and eternal life for them. Those who
hear this Good News and believe it have the eternal life that it
offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives people forgiveness through
Him.
 Scripture Alone
The Bible is God's inerrant and infallible Word, in which He reveals His Law and His Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ. It is the sole rule and norm for Christian doctrine.
Means of Grace
God
has chosen to give us the forgiveness of sins won by Jesus in various
ways that Lutherans call the “means of grace.” These means are His
life-giving Word, the new birth in the water of Holy Baptism, and the
eating and drinking of Jesus’ body and blood in the Lord’s Supper. These
gifts of God are central to Lutheran worship services and Lutheran
teaching. Come and receive these gifts with us at St. John’s!
Book of Concord
The
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod accepts the Scriptures as the inspired
and inerrant Word of God, and subscribes unconditionally to all the
symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as a true and
unadulterated statement and exposition of the Word of God. We accept the
Lutheran Confessions as articulated in the Book of Concord of 1580
because they are drawn from the Word of God and on that account regard
their doctrinal content as a true and binding exposition of Holy
Scripture and as authoritative for all pastors, congregations and other
rostered church workers of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. The text
of the Book of Concord can be found at http://www.bookofconcord.org. These texts are in the public domain and may be copied and distributed freely. The source of these translations is Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921).
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