Our Beliefs
How We Worship
Worship at Immanuel is Christ-centered, Word-inspired, and Prayer-filled. Our purpose is to worship God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in such a way as to inspire and equip you to live out your life as a devoted follower of Jesus Christ.
Worship services offer several liturgical options with music enhanced by our Praise Band as available.
Our communion table is open to all who believe in Jesus Christ and who wish to receive this gift of grace and forgiveness. Children who are unacustomed to receiving communion are invited to come forward to receive a blessing.
Our Mission Statement
We are a church family of Christian believers who celebrate with joy the renewing love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are committed to learning, sharing, and living the Word of God and His sacraments in our Worship, lives and community.
Our Church Affiliation
We are a member of Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC).
Visit www.LCMC.net for more information.
Our Statement of Faith
We believe, teach, and confess the Triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
• The proclamation of God’s message to us as both law and gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy in the person and work of Jesus Christ through whom God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself.
• The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God. Inspired by God’s Spirit speaking through their authors, they record and announce God’s revelation centering in Jesus Christ. Through them God’s Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.
• We believe, teach, and accept the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the sole authoritative source and norm of our proclamation, faith, and life.
• We accept the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the scriptural faith we believe, teach, and confess.
• We believe, teach, and accept the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism as true witnesses to the Word of God, normative for our teaching and practice. We acknowledge that we are one in faith and doctrine with all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.
• We believe, teach, and confess the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord, namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid expositions of the Holy Scriptures.
• We believe, teach and confess the gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the priesthood of all believers for God’s mission in the world.