{"id":11,"date":"2009-11-27T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-02-21T22:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:56:41","slug":"what-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/what-we-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>The following bullets highlight what we believe: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:16px\">\n<li>We believe in the God of the Holy Bible who reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We rejoice in God&#8217;s love together, knowing that God bids us worship Him. Our teachings are drawing from Scripture alone and the rich doctrinal heritage of the Lutheran Church &#8211; Missouri Synod.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that the entire Bible is the inerrant, inspired Word of God, and the only source and rule for life with God.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that God is a Triune God, who is FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that humans are born sinful and that SIN has severed our relationship with God. We are, therefore, in need of God&#8217;s forgiveness and grace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that our sins are forgiven through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that a person is saved by God&#8217;s grace alone through Faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, not through any works done by us. The Bible teaches in John 3:16 that &#8220;God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not die, but have eternal life.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that God&#8217;s GRACE comes to us through the Word of God and through the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord&#8217;s Supper as ways that God works His forgiveness and grace in our lives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We believe and teach that salvation starts today, as we live by faith through Jesus Christ. Life becomes meaningful only as we live it in a faith relationship with Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Feel free to browse the following articles for additional explanations of our beliefs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:16px\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/who-are-lutherans-anyway\/\">Who are Lutherans, anyway?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/what-is-truth\/\">What is Truth?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/gods-saving-grace\/\">God&#8217;s Saving Grace<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/he-is-risen\/\">He is Risen!<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/fruit-of-the-vine\/\">Fruit of the Vine<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/the-revealed-god\/\">The Revealed God<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/why-suffering\/\">Why Suffering?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/baptism-part-1-of-2\/\">Baptism &#8211; Part 1 of 2<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/baptism-part-2-of-2\/\">Baptism &#8211; Part 2 of 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following bullets highlight what we believe: Feel free to browse the following articles for additional explanations of our beliefs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/what-we-believe\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohntheapostlelutheran.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}