what We Believe

Our community of faith gathers around God's Word and the sacraments. Worship at First Lutheran is full of joy and music of many different styles. Our hope is to make everyone feel welcome, no exceptions.

A few of our faith commitments:

• Human beings are restored to everlasting life by the grace of God alone -- not by anything we do; 
• Faith in Christ is a gift of God through which we receive salvation;
• Human beings are made in God's image, but that image becomes distorted and broken by sin (our own and others'); grace works through us and strengthens us to better love God and each other; 
• The Bible is divinely inspired, and together with the spoken witness of believers becomes active as the living Word of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.

We are proud to be a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the largest Christian denominations in the U.S., with almost 4 million members in nearly 10,000 congregations nationwide.  We are a church that shares a living, daring confidence in God's grace. Liberated by our faith, we embrace you as a whole person--questions, complexities and all. Join us as we do God's work in Christ's name for the life of the world.