We, the congregations of the Orthodox Lutheran Lutheran Confessional Conference, believe in the forgiveness of sins which comes to us in our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, Who by His perfect life kept the Law of God in our place, Who by His perfect suffering and death upon the Cross atoned for the sins of the whole world, and Who by His resurrection from the dead declared the whole world righteous. All who believe this are justified before God entirely apart from any work of their own. By faith t
This Apostolic faith has been delivered to us in the Holy Scriptures. By His Holy Spirit Who always is working in and through the Scriptures wherever they are faithfully preached and taught, God has preserved this Gospel against all assaults of the devil, the world and our flesh. Throughout the ages, faithful men have defended this truth against heretics and errorists by publicly confessing the Gospel in the form of written confessions. These confessions direct us back to Christ in His Word and Sacraments,
We wholeheartedly subscribe to those confessions as they were published together in the Book of Concord, of 1580: The Apostles Creed; The Nicene Creed; The Athanasian Creed; The Unaltered Augsburg Confession; The Defense (Apology) of the Augsburg Confession; The Large and Small Catechisms of Martin Luther; the Smalcald Articles; the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope; and the Formula of Concord. We accept all doctrinal content of these confessions to be the doctrine which the Holy Scriptures them