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OUR HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL
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P. O. Box 365, 1826 Trinity Drive, Huntertown, IN 46748 (260) 637-3625
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OUR MISSION
The mission of Our Hope Lutheran Church is to support the continual Christian
growth of each member in order to motivate and prepare us to reach out with the
Gospel to all people.
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OUR VISION
The vision at Our Hope is to create a 21 st century mission center where
people will experience the heart of Jesus. This mission center will be filled
with the most imaginative, innovative, and involved followers of Jesus Christ,
who will stop at nothing to bring the world to experience the heart of the King.
OUR HOPE FOR YOU
I want you to know that whatever has happened in the past, or whatever you
are going through right now, you matter to God. He loves you so much that He
gave His only Son to die on the cross for you. You are so important to Him that
right now He is pursuing you with His everlasting love. We invite you to come to Our Hope and experience the love,
joy, and peace that can only be found when one is in a right relationship with
God through believing in His Son
Jesus as your Savior. In His love, Phil Schamehorn a missionary called to
bring the Gospel to Northwest Indiana and the farthest corners of this earth.
OUR BELIEFS
- The Bible is the only source of knowledge about God and His forgiveness,
and is also the way in which God speaks to us today. It was written by men as
they were directed and guided by God's Holy Spirit, and so it is true and
without error.
- There is only one true God. He has revealed Himself in three persons:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Christian Church is a Trinitarian Church.
- God the Father is the creator of the universe with all of its grandeur and
beauty. He alone sustains it with His mighty power. The crown of His creation
was Adam and Eve, whom He created in His own image that they might live in
fellowship with Him and His creation.
- Adam and Eve doubted God's promise to them and rebelled against God. As
they listened to Satan's lies, their relationship with God, with each other,
and with creation was shattered. They now hid from their creator God, pointed
fingers at each other, and were told that they would return to the very dust
from which man was created. Now every human is born with a self-centered
(sinful) nature and a tendency for evil that violates God's will and desire.
Attempts to change human nature or to please God with our own good deeds are
doomed to failure, for God demands perfection. We are not perfect. Therefore
all of us needs new life and forgiveness which comes only from God in Jesus
Christ.
- Jesus Christ is God the Son. In His perfect life on earth, He did what no
one else had ever done or ever will do. Through His death on the cross, He
took upon Himself the punishment for sin for all people. By defeating death
with His resurrection from the grave, three days after being buried, Jesus
showed the world that His sacrifice on the cross had been accepted by God the
Father as payment for all men's sins.
- God, the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, brings us to faith
in Christ. As the Gospel message goes forth, He works in people's hearts to
bring them into a right relationship with God through belief in the sacrifice
of Christ as being for us personally. The Holy Spirit also encourages and
nurtures us as we grow in our relationship with our Lord.
- The church is the fellowship of all who have come to faith in Jesus Christ
as their Savior and Lord. God has given two great gifts to continue its
growth: Baptism, to create faith and sustain faith, and the Lord's Supper to
nurturer faith. In His supper, our Lord Jesus gives us His body and blood in
and with the bread and wine.
- A Christian is a member of the Church not because of what he/she has done
or who he/she is, but because God has called that person into a relationship
with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. While here on earth, our imperfections
remain with us. But Christians are called to live for Jesus, seeking to serve
and honor Him by word and deed in all facets of life. Life cannot be divided
into compartments where Jesus is not present, for He is the author and Lord of
all my life. To know Him is the only way to know what true life is all about,
and serving Him is life's greatest privilege.
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