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The Lutheran Church:
- is the largest Protestant church body in the world, comprising roughly half of all the world’s Protestants.
- understands the Church to be the people of God gathered around the Word and Sacraments, sent out to serve and care for the world in the name of Jesus.
- is named after Martin Luther, a sixteenth-century German monk and Old Testament professor who came to a renewed understanding of tje Gospel and tried to bring reform to the Church on light of that understanding. (We do not worship him.)
- believes that all people are in need of God’s love and mercy, and that God’s forgiveness is both free and undeserved, and available to all.
- celebrates two Sacraments: Holy Baptism, where we are reborn, once and for all, as children of God; and Holy Communion (also called the Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper), where we are regularly nourished by the real presence of Christ in bread and wine.
- regards the Holy Scriptures as the inspired written witness of the apostles and prophets to Jesus, the incarnate Word of God.
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