"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 (NIV)

What We Believe

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christian church. We believe and confess that the Holy Scriptures are the inspired Word of God. We believe and confess the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. We believe and sing of our faith in the words of one of Martin Luther's hymns, "We All Believe in One True God:"

1.

We all believe in one true God,

Who created earth and heaven,

The Father, who to us in love

Hath the right of children given.

He both soul and body feedeth,

All we need He doth provide us;

He through snares and perils leadeth,

Watching that no harm betide us.

He careth for us day and night,

All things are governed by His might.

2.

We all believe in Jesus Christ,

His own Son, our Lord, possessing

An equal Godhead, throne, and might,

Source of every grace and blessing.

Born of Mary, virgin mother,

By the power of the Spirit,

Made true man, our elder Brother,

That the lost might life inherit;

Was crucified for sinful men

And raised by God to life again.

3.

We all confess the Holy Ghost,

Who sweet grace and comfort giveth

And with the Father and the Son

In eternal glory liveth;

Who the Church, His own creation,

Keeps in unity of spirit.

Here forgiveness and salvation

Daily come through Jesus' merit.

All flesh shall rise, and we shall be

In bliss with God eternally. Amen.

Text by Martin Luther, translation composite, copied from The Lutheran Hymnal, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941.

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