Our Faith
GELCU recognizes and confesses the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the only source and infallible standard of all Church doctrine and practice, and holds the Apostolic, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, as well as Lutheran confessions, particularly the Augsburg Confession and the Small Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther, to be a true and clear interpretation of the Word of God.
The foundational confessional documents of GELCU are:
The Three Ecumenical Creeds
External resource ↗The Small Catechism of Martin Luther
External resource ↗The Augsburg Confession
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Other important historical confessional documents for GELCU include:
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
External resource ↗The Smalcald Articles
External resource ↗The Large Catechism of Martin Luther
External resource ↗The Formula of Concord
External resource ↗On the Power and Primacy of the Pope
External resource ↗On the Bondage of the Will
External resource ↗The Leuenberg Agreement
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