Whatever
your religious background and however you have come to be in our area, we would
like to invite you to join us in worship at Advent Lutheran Church. We hope that you will feel comfortable here - but challenged, fulfilled - but seeking
more, strengthened as an individual - but finding your place in community with
others.
INVITATION TO COMMUNION All who are
baptized and who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are welcome to
participate in the Sacrament of Holy Communion. Membership in the Lutheran Church or this congregation is not required.
WHAT DO LUTHERANS BELIEVE?
- We are justified (saved) by our faith - not works or
merit. It is the grace of God which makes this possible.
- We believe in the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- We accept the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments as the Inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and
norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.
- We accept the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as
true declarations of the faith of this church.
- We confess the Gospel, recorded in Holy Scripture and
confessed in ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the
power of God to create and sustain the Church for God's mission in the
world.
- We recognize two sacraments: Baptism and Holy
Communion.
- Baptism is God's action. In baptism, God accepts
us. Therefore we baptize infants as well as adults.
- Christ is truly and fully present in, with, and under the
forms of the bread and wine of communion. Bread and wine are not
mere symbols. We commune weekly.
- We are a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
- We (the ELCA) is in full communion with the Episcopal
Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ, the
Reformed Church in America, and the Moravian Church.
HOW COULD I BECOME A MEMBER?
- If you are already a Lutheran you would meet with the
pastor to discuss this congregation and your potential involvement in
it. A letter of transfer would be requested from your current church
and you would be received, by transfer, on a Sunday morning at
either the 9:00 am or 11:00 am service.
- If you want to become a Lutheran (or be baptized) you
would meet with the pastor to receive membership instruction. The
number of meetings would vary individually depending on the amount of
instruction needed. You would be received by affirmation of faith or
by baptism on a Sunday morning at either the 9:00 am or 11:00 am service.
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