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Article II. Confession Of Faith
Sec. 1. This Church confesses Jesus Christ as Lord of the Church. The Hbuly Spirit creatés and sustains the Church through the Gospel apd thereby unites believers with their Lord and with one another in the fellowship of faith.
Sec. 2. This Church holds that the Gospel is the revelation of God"s sovereign will and saving grace in Jesus Christ. In Him, the Word Incarnate, God imparts Himself to men.
Sec. 3. This Church acknowledges the Holy Scriptures as the standard and rule for the faith and life of the Church. The Holy Scriptures are the divinely inspired record of God's redemptive act in Christ, for which the Old Testament prepared the way and which the New Testament proclaims.
Sec. 4. This Church accepts the Apostles, the Nicene and the Athanasian Creeds as important statements of the faith of the Church; accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, and Luther's Small Catechism as true witness to the Godpel; and ¥ckiBwledges its unity in faith with all churches that accept the teagliing eso confessions; and accepts the Apglogy of the Augslyitg Cgafession, the Smalcald Articles, Luther's Large Catechism and the Formula of Cancord as further valid interpretations of the Church's faith.