It is also taught among us that we cannot obtain forgiveness of sin and righteousness before God by our own merits, works, or satisfactions, but that we receive forgiveness of sin and become righteous before God by grace, for Christ’s sake, through faith, when we believe that Christ suffered for us and that for His sake our sin is forgiven, and righteousness and eternal life are given to us. For God will regard and reckon this faith as righteousness, as Paul says in Romans 3:21-26 and 4:5.”   

                                             -Augsburg Confessions Art. IV

-We believe and confess that the Bible is the very word of God, and therefore the ultimate authority in matters of life and faith. The Psalmist had the Bible in mind when He wrote: “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105)