God gives to us.
We come to worship to receive from God. We need his Word and sacraments more than oxygen. Week after week, he declares our desperate need for Jesus and promises that he has met our every need in Jesus. We have peace with God. Nothing can separate us from his love. His love fuels our loves for others. His word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path.
We give to God.
Not that he needs anything from us. We cannot offer to him anything we haven’t already received from him. Our giving to him is actually his gift to us. We give him our prayer and praise, our offerings and time. We give to him when we give to one another.
We give to one another.
We don’t come to worship merely as consumers. We gather so that we may be blessings to one another. To encourage one another. To hold each other accountable. To offer a hug to the hurting and a hand to the suffering. To remind each other that we don’t walk alone.
Our worship is a taste of the great reunion to come—gathered around our Savior.
Our Form of Worship
Every time people gather for something that matters, we naturally fall into a pattern. A birthday has its songs. Family reunions have their unique traditions.
Worship at Living Hope works the same way. Each week we come into God's presence, where he has promised to be found. So the hymns, prayers, and creeds aren't chosen by the whims of the times. We draw from the richest treasures of the church's past — and from the most promising gifts God has given his church in recent years.
More than quick entertainment, our worship leans on patterns that have lived up to the most difficult challenges of the church's past. In all of it, we strive to keep the gospel at the heart of everything we say and do.
Worship at Living Hope works the same way. Each week we come into God's presence, where he has promised to be found. So the hymns, prayers, and creeds aren't chosen by the whims of the times. We draw from the richest treasures of the church's past — and from the most promising gifts God has given his church in recent years.
More than quick entertainment, our worship leans on patterns that have lived up to the most difficult challenges of the church's past. In all of it, we strive to keep the gospel at the heart of everything we say and do.
What We Believe
Everything we believe comes back to one thing: what God has done for us in Christ.
There's nothing new here. Lutherans didn't invent a set of teachings — we simply hold to what the Bible has said all along. God did not send a range of options but one Savior, and the whole of Scripture points to him: the prophets of the Old Testament looked ahead to Christ, the apostles of the New looked back on him. That's the faith we confess.
We are a Christian church, gathered to praise God, be strengthened by his Word, and reach out to those around us in love.
We are a Lutheran church, proclaiming the forgiveness Christ won for all people at the cross.
We are a Biblical church, giving God's Word the first and final say in our faith and life.
For a thorough explanation of the teachings of the Lutheran Church, visit What We Believe on our synod's website.
There's nothing new here. Lutherans didn't invent a set of teachings — we simply hold to what the Bible has said all along. God did not send a range of options but one Savior, and the whole of Scripture points to him: the prophets of the Old Testament looked ahead to Christ, the apostles of the New looked back on him. That's the faith we confess.
We are a Christian church, gathered to praise God, be strengthened by his Word, and reach out to those around us in love.
We are a Lutheran church, proclaiming the forgiveness Christ won for all people at the cross.
We are a Biblical church, giving God's Word the first and final say in our faith and life.
For a thorough explanation of the teachings of the Lutheran Church, visit What We Believe on our synod's website.
Our Synod
Living Hope Lutheran Church is part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). The WELS is characterized as theologically conservative and the third largest Lutheran church body in America. With national offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WELS began in 1850 when three German pastors met in Milwaukee. Today, it has grown to over 1200 congregations in North America. It has over 400,000 baptized members, which includes over 300,000 communicants, served by over 1000 pastors.
The synod operates four ministerial education schools: Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wisconsin; Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota (pictured); Luther Preparatory School, Watertown, Wisconsin; and Michigan Lutheran Seminary, Saginaw, Michigan.
As members of the WELS, we share with our fellow believers in our synod's stated mission:
As men, women, and children united in faith and worship by the Word of God, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod exists to make disciples throughout the world for time and for eternity, using the gospel in word and sacrament to win the lost for Christ and to nurture believers for lives of Christian service, all to the glory of God.
The synod operates four ministerial education schools: Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wisconsin; Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota (pictured); Luther Preparatory School, Watertown, Wisconsin; and Michigan Lutheran Seminary, Saginaw, Michigan.
As members of the WELS, we share with our fellow believers in our synod's stated mission:
As men, women, and children united in faith and worship by the Word of God, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod exists to make disciples throughout the world for time and for eternity, using the gospel in word and sacrament to win the lost for Christ and to nurture believers for lives of Christian service, all to the glory of God.