Mount Olive Lutheran Church
Loveland, CO
What We Believe, Teach, and Confess
Holy Scriptures
Every letter of the Bible is God's Word for us. He speaks His word to us because He loves us and He has a purpose for us - to bring us to faith in Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior. At Mount Olive, we turn to the Word of God as the source for all that we believe, teach, and confess. We take great comfort in God's Word because we know that, "these things are written so that [we] might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the God, and that by believing, we may have life in His Name," (St. John 20:31). Through the Scriptures, we learn that we are sinners and that Christ has died for each one of us. In Him, we are made alive, born again as children of God.
Creeds
The word creed comes from the Latin words for "I believe." These statements of faith are simple words that summarize the basic teachings of Holy Scripture and the Christian faith. We are proud to confess the creeds of the historic Christian church (the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) with the countless believers who have gone before us.
Lutheran Confessions
Mount Olive Lutheran Church accepts the Scriptures as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, and subscribes unconditionally to all the symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as contained in the Book of Concord as a true and unadulterated statement and explanation of the Word of God. We accept the Confessions because they are drawn from the Word of God and on that account regard their doctrinal content as a true and binding exposition of Holy Scripture and as authoritative for all pastors, congregations and other rostered church workers of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. The Book of Concord is not inspired as Scripture is, nor is it authoritative above God's Word, it is a true explanation of Scriptural truth.
Sacraments
Holy Baptism
Baptism is not merely "getting wet." Baptism is getting wet in the command and promise of God. Scripture teaches us that Baptism is water...and the Word. God promises in Holy Scripture to deliver forgiveness, life and salvation that was won by Christ's death on the Cross to us through the means of Holy Baptism. All of us are sinful children of Adam and Eve, and therefore we need His forgiveness. We all need God to save us, no matter how old or young we are. Baptism is something that God does for us and through which He calls us by name and makes us His own children.
The Lord's Supper
The Lord's Supper is celebrated at Mount Olive in the confession and glad confidence that as He says, our Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine, but also His very Body and Blood to eat and drink for the forgiveness of our sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord invites to His Table all those who trust His Words regarding the Supper, repent of their sins, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us, that we may show forth His death until He comes.
Because those who eat and drink our Lord's Body and Blood improperly do so to their harm, and because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar and by this congregation, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold to a different confession from that of Mount Olive are asked to first speak with Pastor Hein. It is our desire and hope that you may be one with us in confession of faith and in the Supper at this church. We remember that this Supper is the Lord's Supper, and so we strive to be true to what He says regarding it.
The Lord's Supper is celebrated at Mount Olive on the first and third Sundays of each month.
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
With the universal Christian Church, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) teaches and responds tot he love of the Triune God: the Father, creator of all that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all humanity and who rose to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God's Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the Trinity are co-equal and co-eternal, one God.
Being "Lutheran," these congregations accept and teach Bible-based teachings of Martin Luther that inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century. The primary teaching of Dr. Luther and the reformers can be summarized in three short phrases: Grace alone, Faith alone, Scripture alone. (sola gratia, sola fide, sola scriptura).
The word "synod" in "the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod" comes from the Greek words that mean "walking together." It has rich meaning in our church body, because the congregations voluntarily choose to belong to the Synod and walk together with the other member congregations. Diverse in their service, these congregations all hold to a shared confession of salvation in Jesus Christ alone as taught in Holy Scriptures and in the Lutheran Confessions.
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