Our study of membership continues this evening as we move on from the fundamental question of "What does it mean to be a Christian" on to "What does it mean to be Lutheran?"
We will not be able to fully tease out all the unique points of Lutheran theology and practice tonight, but using the Augsburg Confession and Reformation history as our guide, we're going to begin to look at some of the key distinctives of Lutheran belief. So tonight we will be looking less at what the Bible says about who God is and more about what the Bible says about how God works and how He saves us.