Pastor Kenneth Lentz

Christ Lutheran Church is a member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination with  about 10,000 congregations in the United States and the Bahamas. With over 4 million members, the ELCA strives to proclaim the Gospel under  the motto, “God’s Work, Our Hands.”   Christ Lutheran Church belongs to  the Florida-Bahamas Synod (district), one of 65 synods overseen by  synodical bishops under the authority of the Presiding Bishop in  Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA supports 29 colleges and 8 seminaries and is one of 120  Lutheran denominations affiliated with Lutheran World Federation  headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Domestic outreach ministry is accomplished through agencies of the ELCA  and global ministry is supported through Lutheran Immigration and  Refugee Service and Lutheran World Relief. 

Lutherans believe that all people are saved by God’s grace announced by  God’s son, Jesus, who bestows God’s mercy and forgiveness through Word  and Sacrament.  The sacrament of baptism marks the baptized as one named  by God and the sacrament of holy communion bestows continual faith and  the power of love through the real spiritual presence of the resurrected  Christ.  The only authority for Christian teaching is found in the  Bible, life and salvation is received by God’s grace, and the only  requirement for inclusion in God’s Kingdom is faith and trust in the  promises of God in Christ.   We teach that in Christ there is no longer a  distinction between slave and free, Jew and Gentile, and male and  female (Galatians 3: 28).   All persons are welcomed to the community of  faith for nurture and fellowship.