Our Statement of Faith

Peace be with you.

The Lutheran Church is one of many denominations that constitute the holy catholic church worldwide who confess Jesus Christ as Lord. Working together with the other 68 million Lutherans worldwide through the Lutheran World Federation and through ecumenical relationships with other Christian churches worldwide, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada seeks to be "In Mission for Others."

This is the Lutheran Confession of Faith
quoted from Article II of the Constitution
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada:

Section 1.   This church confesses the Triune God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—as the one true God. It proclaims the Father as Creator and Preserver; His Son, Jesus Christ, as Redeemer and Lord; and the Holy Spirit as Regenerator and Sanctifier.

Section 2.   This church confesses that the Gospel is the revelation of God's saving will and grace in Jesus Christ, which He imparts through Word and Sacrament. Through these means of grace the Holy Spirit creates believers and unites them with their Lord and with one another in the fellowship of the Holy Christian Church.

Section 3.   This church confesses the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God, through which God still speaks, and as the only source of the Church's doctrine and the authoritative standard for the faith and life of the Church.

Section 4.   This church subscribes to the documents of the Book of Concord of 1580 as witnesses to the way in which the Holy Scriptures have been correctly understood, explained and confessed for the sake of the Gospel, namely

1. The Apostles', the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds as the chief confessions of the Christian faith;
2. The unaltered Augsburg Confession as its basic formulation of Christian doctrine;
3. Luther's Small Catechism as a clear summary of Christian doctrine;
4. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Luther's Large Catechism, the Smalcald Articles with the Treatise, and the Formula of Concord as further witnesses to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.

Go in peace; serve the Lord.