Our Beliefs
Peace Lutheran Church is a growing Christian community that exists to help people grow in faith toward God and in fervent love toward their neighbors.
GRACE ALONE. FAITH ALONE. GOD’S WORD ALONE.
We are Christian. This means that we believe that all of us are negatively affected by sin from birth and unable to remedy this problem on our own. We believe that we are rescued from this sin by the undeserved mercy of God. Through faith—a relationship of dependence upon Jesus that God Himself gives us—forgiveness and more become ours. We view God’s Word—the Bible—as the source for this truth and life. We don’t keep this good news to ourselves but seek to serve and love those around us as we bring the saving message of Jesus to the ends of the earth.
The words of the Apostles’ Creed (see below), along with the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, have served as a summary of Spirit-filled and scriptural belief since the earliest days of Christianity. They summarize what Christians have always confessed and believed and are the truths that we believe, teach, and confess at Peace Tustin.
Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
On the third day He rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
from there He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.
Peace Tustin is part of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). To be Lutheran simply means that we accept the scriptural truths that inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century which ultimately led to a renewed focus on the Gospel.
As a result we uphold an extravagant and mysterious view of God’s love: that man is saved purely by God’s grace through faith alone, apart from works. We believe that God is so loving and powerful that he is actively working through His Word as well as saving and sustaining sinful men, women and children through his mysterious gifts of baptism and the Lord’s Supper.