Statement of Faith

I BELIEVE
In God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ his only Son, Our Lord;
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Born of the Virgin Mary;
Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell;
The third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the
Father Almighty;
From thence He shall come to judge the
quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
The Holy Christian Church,
The Communion of Saints;
The Forgiveness of sins;
The Resurrection of the body;
And the Life everlasting.

—Translation from I Believe: Meditations on the Creed by William Lee Hutton, ©1922
The Board of Publications of the United Lutheran Church in America.