Our Faith Defines us

MLCA Statement of Faith

  • We believe that the Bible is literally inspired and the only infallible authoritative Word of God.

  • We believe in one God, eternally existent in three Persons:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  • We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

  • We believe that for salvation of lost and sinful man belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, producing regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

  • We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit who’s in-dwelling in all believers and enables them to live holy and Christ-like lives.

  • We believe in the personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ, in power and glory to reign in righteousness.  We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost – those that are saved to the resurrection of life and those that are lost to a resurrection of everlasting punishment.

  • We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and in the importance of all His followers maintaining good works as evidence of faith in Christ.

  • We believe that heaven is the final place of eternal life with God for the believer and that Hell is the place of everlasting separation from God for the unbeliever.