God's Love is for ALL People
We believe God’s grace, God’s unfathomable love, is available to all people as a gift through Jesus Christ. All are welcome here with their whole selves, which includes one’s race, ethnic background, past wrongdoing, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability and legal status. Questions and doubts are welcome.
Who is God?
God is the creator of the world; the giver of life; the source of wholeness, healing and forgiveness; the champion of the poor and oppressed; the power of new life and resurrection. God creates, redeems and continues to sustain the world. Christians know God as the Holy Trinity — one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As Christians, we believe all people are created in God’s image and loved by God. We know about God thanks to the witness of the Scriptures and especially through Jesus Christ, who embodied God’s love for humanity. God’s grace is a gift, given through Christ and received by faith. There is nothing we can do on our own — good or bad — to earn this gift. We call this “good news” or the “gospel.” Through this gift of God, we are led by the Holy Spirit to love and work for justice and peace.
What do Christians Believe?
Christians believe that God came to us in Jesus Christ, a true human, humble and vulnerable. Jesus lived among us and demonstrated the good news in all he was and did. The good news is the promise that God loves us and saves us by grace alone. This promise was realized when Jesus was crucified. He died on the cross but was raised again in the body and in a new wholeness. As a result, through the gift of grace received by faith, all people can be made whole in Christ and set free to love and serve all people, particularly the vulnerable, just as God loves us.
Does LMC Welcome AND Include EVERYONE?
God’s love for everyone compels us to stand against anything that harms or divides us from each other, such as injustice, prejudice, and systemic oppression. We confess that all churches, including ours, have been complicit in this discrimination and division. We are, however, committed to doing the hard work of examining ourselves and engaging in honest dialogue with those who challenge exclusion and domination. We desire to do our part in God’s great work of bringing reconciliation, restoration, and wholeness to the world. Confronting injustice is ongoing work done locally and throughout the world.
At Luther Memorial Church, we embrace ALL people regardless of race, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other way that human beings label themselves and one another.
We are an affirming and inclusive congregation!
At Luther Memorial Church, we embrace ALL people regardless of race, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other way that human beings label themselves and one another.
We are an affirming and inclusive congregation!