The Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God, three persons, equal in majesty and together being of one essence, truly does love us as His own dear children. With the Word and Sacraments, He keeps the entire church on earth in the one, true and saving faith. He illumines and kindles hearts so that they grasp and accept it, cling to it, and persevere in it. In the church, the Spirit of God is daily pouring out the forgiveness of sins in rich measure so that on the last day we will rise from dead and join all believers in Christ in eternal life. Daily we want to thank and praise God the Holy Spirit for His work in our lives.
Some church bodies shy away from making formal statements of faith.
We use the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed. These three ancient creeds are how we confess the one, true faith of the Christian church and they help us to identify with all believers in Christ throughout all ages. The church has maintained the confession of these creeds and has even suffered martyrdom rather than deny the faith confessed in them. Therefore, the use of the historic Christian creeds is a very important part of Lutheran worship services. Because we know that personal, individual statements of faith are oftentimes subject to imprecise and even erroneous confessions of the faith of the church, we discourage the use of informal statements of faith in the public worship of the church.