What We Believe

Welcome

Since our beginning a century ago, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church has proclaimed the good news of Jesus Christ. Each week we strive to communicate the love of God summarized so powerfully by St. Paul in his letter to the Romans: “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

If you are looking for a traditional worship service firmly grounded in God's eternal Word, join us this Sunday. We are located at 1037 Victoria Ave, Regina SK.

The Church

"The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." – Augsburg Confession, Article VII

Rooted in the Faith Once Delivered

Grace Lutheran is a member church of the Lutheran Church Canada. It was established as a parish church in 1924. Over the years, we have evolved into the Mother church in Regina, while continuing to serve the community of the inner city where all are welcome to hear the unchanging Word of God undiluted by a changing culture.

Traditional/Historical Christian Worship Service

In addition to Divine Service every Sunday, Grace Lutheran holds special services throughout the year. These include Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Ash Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Ascension of our Lord.

You are invited to join us for mid-week services each Wednesday @ 11:00 am during the seasons of Advent and Lent. These services are followed by a lunch in our Fellowship Hall.

We use the liturgies and hymns found in the Lutheran Service Book and are currently following the three-year lectionary.

Church Life

If you have a special skill, a pair of hands willing to work or a longing to learn, there are always opportunities to actively help out in the Church.

About Our Ancient-Future Lutheran Faith

Lutheran Christianity is rooted in the ancient faith and practice of the first century church. We trace our history through the sixteenth century Lutheran Reformation and the Great Catholic tradition. For over 500 years, the Lutheran Church has been making Chrisitan disciples. Fueled by the missionary love of Christ's cross and resurrection, the Lutheran Church has become the world's third largest Christian body, with nearly 85 million members worldwide.

Today we still stand firmly where Martin Luther stood. We still preach the theology of the cross, God's free gift of grace, and justification by faith alone. We still proclaim the unchanging gospel of Jesus Christ: the forgiveness of sins and the promise of life everlasting.

Join us this Sunday at Regina’s oldest Lutheran church. You will find:

A Biblical Church. As evangelical catholics, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church teaches that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the divinely inspired and authoritative Word of God.

A Confessional Church. We believe, teach and confess the theology of our historic confessions found in the first Christian confession of faith, the 1530 Augsburg Confession and the Book of Concord. This 500-year-old confession has stood the test of time because it is a faithful expression of the unerring teaching of the Holy Bible and the creeds of the Church.

A Sacramental Church. Confident that God’s Word bestows exactly what it says (the King speaks and it is done!), Grace Lutheran stands in continuity with the teaching of the Apostles and the ancient Church extolling the benefits of Holy Baptism, Holy Absolution, and Holy Communion whenever we gather in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. With these gifts of Christ’s Word and Sacraments, we experience the real voice and real presence of God.

A Liturgical Church. The divine liturgy from the Lutheran Service Book is used at Grace because we follow the theology of worship that God has given His Church by which He saves, sanctifies, and is known in the world. The divine liturgy is not only the means by which God speaks and does His saving and sanctifying, but also where He is present for His people.

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Regina, is a confessional congregation.

To be confessional means simply this: that we hold to the doctrinal tenets expressed in the historic creeds and confessions of the Christian faith as set down in the Book of Concord, 1580.

Sadly, many modern churches have ceased to be confessional. They’ve opted instead to curry favour with ill-named “progressive” thinkers, making an ever more feeble bid for relevance in a world of growing unbelief.

We understand that God’s Word is eternal and eternally unchanging. That Word, revealed to us in the Holy Bible, is, of course, the sole foundation of our faith. And it informs three of the world’s most enduring creeds.

At Grace we raise our voices on Sundays with generations of Christian voices before us in reciting the Nicene Creed, first drafted in 325 A.D.:

I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth
and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only begotten Son of God,
begotten of his Father before all words,
God of God, Light of Light,
very God of very God,
begotten, not made,
being of one substance with the Father,
by whom all things were made;
who for us men and for our salvation
came down from heaven
and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary
and was made man;
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and was buried.
And the third day he rose again
according to the Scriptures
and ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of the Father.
And he will come again with glory to judge
both the living and the dead,
whose kingdom will have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord and giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son together
is worshipped and glorified,
who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church,
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins,
and I look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

From time to time in our liturgical worship we also recite the other two universal Christian creeds: the Apostles’ Creed and the Athanasian Creed. They and the Nicene Creed remain among the clearest, most doctrinally accurate statements of the Bible’s central message and what we believe. Both the Apostles’ Creed (the chief creed of the Small Catechism) and the Nicene Creed focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ. The Athanasian Creed focuses on the Holy Trinity.

Of course, as Lutherans, we also hold that the various documents contained in the Book of Concord present a true exposition of God’s Word. This book – so crucial a part of the Reformation – was first published in 1580 and contains, among other works, Martin Luther’s small and large catechisms, the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, and the Formula of Concord. All have profoundly influenced Christian, and especially Lutheran, teaching down through the ages. They still guide us and our national church body, Lutheran Church Canada, today.

Beyond this, we find great wisdom and inspiration in the volumes of sermons and other writings that have come down to us from Martin Luther himself.

If you’re truly interested in what we believe, we encourage you to join us in our worship services, Bible studies, and other church activities. And if you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Grace at gracelc@sasktel.net.