About Us

Spencer Creek Lutheran Church is a member of the AFLC, who believes that final human authority in the churches is vested in the local congregations, subject to the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.

As a free congregation, Spencer Creek Lutheran Church selects and calls its own pastors, conducts its own program of worship, fellowship and service and owns and maintains its own property.

The AFLC provides Fundamental Principles, from which we have pulled pertinent information so you may know more about our church and guiding beliefs.

The AFLC Today

1. Recognizes the Bible as being inerrant and the authority in all areas of life;
   
   
2. Recognizes that the teaching and preaching of God’s Word is the main task of the Church, to be conducted in such a way that the saints are built up in the faith and unbelievers see their need for salvation;
   
   
3. Believes that the congregation is the right form of the Kingdom of God on earth, with no authority above it but the Word and Spirit of God;
   
   
4. Believes that Christian unity is a spiritual concept, not a man-made organization or body such as the World Council of Churches or the National Council of Churches;
   
   
5. Believes that Christians are called to be salt and light in the world, separated from the ways of the world (Pietism), and that this difference is to be reflected in the life of the congregation as well as in the institutions of the church body.

(Excerpted from: History, Organization, & Principles of the AFLC, Standing Fast in Freedom)

Declaration of Faith: Doctrine

1. We accept and believe in the Holy Bible as the complete written Word of God and preserved to us by the Holy Spirit for our salvation and instruction.
   
   
2. We endorse the statement on the Word as found in the United Testimony on Faith and Life and would quote here the following: “We bear witness that the Bible is our only authentic and infallible source of God’s revelation to us and all men, and that it is the only inerrant and completely adequate source and norm of Christian doctrine and life. We hold that the Bible, as a whole and in all its parts, is the Word of God under all circumstances regardless of man's attitude toward it."
   
   
3. We accept the ancient ecumenical symbols, namely, the Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds; Luther’s Small Catechism and the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as the true expression of the Christian faith and life.

(Excerpted from www.aflc.org)