Immanuel Lutheran Church – LCMS
Who are we?
Immanuel
In Hebrew this means “God with us.” It is the title for the incarnate Son of God foretold in Isaiah 7:14 and fulfilled in Matthew 1:23.
Lutheran (Missouri Synod)
We unconditionally confess as a true and faithful exposition of God’s Word the 1580 Book of Concord.
The Church
“Thank God, today a child seven years old knows what the Church is, namely, the holy believers and lambs who hear the voice of their Shepherd.”
Martin Luther
Our Pastor
Pastor Brian Flamme has been serving Immanuel since November of 2017. He is married to his lovely wife, Jennifer, and has three boys: Jason, Noah, and Caleb.
Bible School and Sunday School
Following the Service at 10:30 AM
We Believe, Teach, and Confess
The Trinity
- There is one God in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Human Nature
- That every person is conceived and born in sin (original sin), and deserves temporal death and everlasting damnation for both original and actual sin.
Our Salvation
- That Jesus Christ is the incarnate Son of God, born of the virgin Mary, was truly crucified, died and was buried, and rose again in His body on the third day, He ascended into heaven, and will come again on the last day to be our judge. In short, we confess the three ecumenical creeds.
Faith
- That a person is saved (justified) entirely by God’s grace, through faith, which is created by the Holy Spirit where and when He pleases.
- To obtain this faith, God instituted the Office of the Holy Ministry. Through the means of the Word and the Sacraments the Holy Spirit creates saving faith.
- Believers must do good works, but they are not to trust in them for their salvation.
The Church
- There is one, holy, catholic (Christian) Church, with Jesus Christ as her head.
- The Sacraments of Holy Baptism, Absolution, and the Lord’s Supper are to be retained in the church.
- Believers must do good works, but they are not to trust in them for their salvation.
Our Confessions
- The books of the Old and New Testaments are the true, inspired, inerrant Word of God.
- That the Augsburg Confession (of which the above items are a summary of the first thirteen articles) is a true and faithful exposition of Holy Scripture.
- The rest of the Book of Concord is, like the Augsburg Confession, a true and faithful exposition of Holy Scripture, and we subscribe unreservedly to it.