
The Gospel Leads to Churches
The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

The mission of the church is this: to proclaim the Gospel of free forgiveness of sin by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Good works are actions in accordance with God’s will, taken by the Christian not from fear of punishment or for worldly gain, but as an intrinsic part of the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification.

By grace, through faith, only by Christ, we are reckoned somebody.

If people do not need to engage in good works to secure their salvation, why bother with attempting to live an ethical life?

In “The Freedom of a Christian,” Luther lays out the central Reformation assertion that faith in Christ and not works of the law justifies sinful human beings in the sight of God.

The heart of our confession of Christ and the sacred Scriptures is summarized in the Augsburg Confession.

The article upon which the Church stands or falls is the doctrine of justification. It is the chief article of Christian doctrine.