We gather for worship each week to share our prayers and praise for God as we understand God through our Lutheran Traditions. These include our faithfulness to the Bible, both the Hebrew Bible (“Old Testament”) and the New Testament (the Good News of the coming of Jesus).
We endorse the Apostle’s Creed and other faith statements of the church, as our confession of faith in God, the Father (Creator), Son (Jesus, the Savior), and Holy Spirit (the Promise of God’s presence among us).
We follow the Ten Commandments, the ancient Law of the Jews, as explicated in Luther’s Small Catechism, and we use the Lord’s Prayer, offered by Jesus when His disciples asked Him to “teach us to pray.”
We celebrate the sacraments of Baptism - which is a ceremonial washing away and forgiveness of sins as a means of welcoming a person (at any age) into the family of God – and Holy Communion, which is a remembrance of Jesus’ offering of his own body and blood for us, through his death on the cross. In fact, for Lutherans, the bread and wine of Holy Communion are the physical means by which receive the real presence of God into our own bodies as “food for the journey” of our lives. We practice "open communion", meaning that all are welcome at the Lord's Table.
At Lutheran Church in the Foothills, Holy Communion is celebrated weekly following a corporate Confession of our sinful nature and receiving the Pastor’s absolution, or forgiveness of our sins.