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Core Beliefs
Community Lutheran Church (WELS)
Here we present to you our core beliefs.  The text in italics indicates verses of Scripture from the Holy Bible.

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The Trinity:

We believe the God of the Bible is the only true God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14)

The Destructive Power of Sin:

We believe that all human beings are responsible before God for evil thoughts, conversations and behavior. These actions are called sin and separate us from the living God who is holy and just. Only through faith in Jesus Christ can a person be freed from its guilt .
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
Your iniquities have separated you from your God. (Isaiah 59:)

Salvation by Grace:

We believe a person comes into a right relationship with God by His grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8–9)

Authority of the Bible:

We believe the Bible is the Word of God and has the right to command our beliefs and actions.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

Personal God:

We believe God is involved in and cares about my daily life.
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. (Psalm 139:1-4)

Identity in Christ:

We believe we are significant because of our position as children of God.
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12)

Church:

We believe the church is God's primary way to accomplish His purposes on earth today.
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:15–16)

Humanity:

We believe all people are loved by God and need Jesus Christ as their Savior.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Eternity:

We believe there is a heaven and a hell and that Jesus Christ is returning to judge the earth and to establish His eternal kingdom.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going. (John 14:1–4)

Stewardship:

We believe that everything we are or own belongs to God.
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. (1 Timothy 6:17–19)