Dear Friend,
Saint Stephen’s is a congregation of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
What does Lutheran mean? It means that we are followers of the teachings of the great reformer Martin Luther (1483 – 1546). We believe that
- God created us, but that we are estranged from God and that through the gift of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we are made one with God again through the power of the Holy Spirit.
- We come to know of God and his love for us and all creation through God’s Word, the Bible.
- And we can participate in that love through God’s gift to us of the Sacraments of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion.
- We confess 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,
This congregation accepts the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith of this congregation. (From our Constitution)