Our Savior's Lutheran Church

3634 First Avenue NE; Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
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Phone: (319)365-9159   Fax: (319)365-9150
Email: crsaviors @ msn.com   (remove spaces)


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Click above to view our most recent Newsletter		 Mission Statement:
Our Savior's is called by the Holy Spirit to share the Gospel through
Word and Sacrament and to serve those in need.		 Click below to view the Church Calendar


Who was Martin Luther?


Martin Luther (1483-1546) was an Augustinian monk and an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic church who lived in Germany. While pursuing a Doctor of Theology degree he discovered significant differences between what he read in the Bible and the theology and practices of the church of his day.

On October 31, 1517, he posted a challenge on the church door at Wittenberg University to debate 95 theological issues. Luther's hope was that the church would reform its practice to be more consistent with the Bible. What started as an academic debate escalated to a religious war; as a result, there was not a reformation of the church but a separation. "Lutheran" was a name applied to Luther and his followers as an insult but they adopted it as a badge of honor instead.


Click Here to read the '95 Theses' of Martin Luther at Theopedia.com.

What We Believe

This congregation confesses the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

This congregation confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.

  • Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
  • The proclamation of God's message to us as both Law and Gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy through word and deed, beginning with the Word in creation, continuing in the history of Israel, and centering in all its fullness in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
  • The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the written Word of God. Inspired by God's Spirit speaking through their authors, they record and announce God's revelation centering in Jesus Christ. Through them God's Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.
This congregation accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.

This congregation accepts the Apostles', the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith of this congregation.

This congregation accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness to the Gospel, acknowledging as one with it in faith and doctrine all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession.

This congregation accepts the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord, namely the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles and the Treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid interpretations of the faith of the Church.

This congregation confesses the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the Church of God's mission in the world.

- Taken from the OSLC Constitution of 1990.




Click Here to read more about the Lutheran 'Statements of Belief'
on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America [ELCA] website.




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