Faith Madison

Faith Lutheran Church is a congregation affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. As Lutherans we believe:

In one God who has revealed Himself to us in three Divine Persons--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit;

That this Triune God has caused His Word to be perfectly recorded in the Old and New Testament Scriptures by inspiration of the Holy Spirit;

That by His almighty Word, God created a perfect world in six days but that this perfect world was ruined by Adam and Eve's rebellion against their Creator. Their sin has corrupted all humanity, so that all people are now conceived and born in sin and under God's wrath;

That out of pure, undeserved love, God sent His eternal Son into our sinful world to become a man and to satisfy God's anger against our sins by His perfect life and His innocent suffering and death on the cross;

That this same Son of God, Jesus Christ, not only died for the sins of humanity, but that He rose bodily from the dead after three days and even now lives among His people

That for Jesus' sake, God has graciously pardoned those who repent and believe in Jesus and it is this good news, or Gospel, which Jesus wants His Church to proclaim to all people;

That God distributes His forgiveness and is present today among His people through "the means of Grace*" (the Word and Sacraments) and that God's Church is found wherever these means of grace are used.

* Grace is a religious word that means undeserved love. God distributes His love through the Word of God and through baptism and communion.