Confession of Faith
The North American Lutheran Church confesses:
The Triune God - Father, Son, and Holy Sirit.
Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the
power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through
whom everything was made and through whose life,
death, and resurrection God fashions a new
creation.
The proclamation of God’s message to us as both Law
and Gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment
and mercy through word and deed, beginning with
the Word in creation, continuing in the history of
Israel, and centering in all its fullness in the person
and work of Jesus Christ.
The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments are the written Word of God. Inspired by
the Holy Spirit speaking through their authors, they
record and announce God’s revelation centering in
Jesus Christ. Through them the Holy Spirit speaks
to us to create and sustain Christian faith and
fellowship for service in the world.
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, "according to
which all doctrines should and must be judged." (Formula
of Concord, Epitome, Part I)
The Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true
declarations of the faith of the Church.
The Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness to the Gospel, acknowledging as one with it in faith and
doctrine all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
The other confessional writings in the Book of Concord, namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the
Smalcald Articles and the Treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as
further valid interpretations of the faith of the Church.
The Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the cumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional
writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the Church for God’s mission in the world.
The NALC honors and accepts The Common Confession (2005), attached in an appendix hereto, as a summary
of teachings otherwise affirmed in the Lutheran Confessions.
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