Shepherd of the Falls Lutheran Church, LCMC
“Where Disciples of
Jesus Christ
Gather to Grow in their Faith”
UPCOMING EVENTS
What We Believe
We believe the Bible to be the divinely inspired, revealed, and inerrant Word of God as the only infallible authority in all matters of faith and life.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existing 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 the lost and sinful man must be saved, and that the man's only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
We believe in and practice the holy ordinance of water baptism, which signifies the believer's death, burial, and resurrection into new life with Christ Jesus, and the regular celebration of Holy communion as commanded by our Lord.
We believe in the present ministry and baptism of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; those that are saved into the resurrection of life and those that are unsaved into the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spirtual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ
Who is LCMC...
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) is an association of congregations that have a great respect for the reality that the church is where the people of God gather together around Word and Sacrament. The local congregation is where the church becomes a concrete reality for God’s people who profess that we are:
1) Free in Christ;
2) Accountable to one another;
3) Rooted in Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions;
4) Working together to fulfill Christ’s Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations.
At Shepherd of the Falls we practice open communion and thus all who profess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior are invited to our Lord’s Table to receive the “Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,” given with bread and wine, as instituted by Christ Himself for us to “eat and drink in the remembrance of Him.” We declare that we are prepared and worthy to receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion if we believe the words, “given and shed for you for the forgiveness of sins” for the words “for you” simply require a believing heart.