The apostle Paul writes in the Bible, “…God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them.  And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:19). 

This is the heart of our faith at First Lutheran Church and also the message we seek to share.  Our world and the people in it – including us! – were fallen and helpless to bring ourselves back to God.  What we could never do, the Lord Himself did!  He sent His Son, Jesus, down to our world.  Jesus, a real Man, is also truly God at the same time.  By the life He lived, by the death He died in our place, and by His resurrection from the dead God made peace with the world which had rebelled against Him.  He forgives out of undeserved mercy, because of what Christ has done, and not because of our goodness.