Located at Williams
Lake and Airport Roads
5987 Williams Lake Rd
Waterford, Michigan
48329
248.673.7331

Christ Lutheran Church

About US

Who Are We?

Christ Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The ELCA is the largest Lutheran church body in the United States consisting of 4.8 million baptized members, and over 10,000 congregations. The ELCA is divided into 65 geographical regions, or synods. We are a part of the Southeast Michigan Synod that includes 134 congregations and over 45,000 baptized members. As part of the ELCA, this congregations ministry extends locally, regionally, and globally.

As Lutherans, we are Protestant Christians who accept the teachings of Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), who led the Reformation of the Church beginning on October 31, 1517, with the posting of his Ninety-Five Theses on the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany. The Ninety-Five Theses were challenges to the church of his day to reform its teachings and practices to be more consistent with the Word of God.

Christ Lutheran Church was organized as a congregation on October 23, 1944 in Waterford Township. The congregation first worshiped at the Community Activities Building on Williams Lake Road. On February 13, 1949, the congregation held its first worship service in its own building at it present site on Williams Lake and Airport Roads. Predecessor Lutheran bodies of this congregation include Augustana Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America. We became a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at its founding in 1987.

Presently the congregation is made up of over 400 baptized members with an average weekly worship attendance of approximately 140.

What Do We Believe?

The following statements of faith are from the Constitution for Congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:

  1. This congregation confesses faith in the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  2. This congregation confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
  3. This congregation accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the written Word of God, inspired by God’s Spirit speaking through their authors, and as the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith and life.
  4. This congregation accepts the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of its faith.
  5. This congregation accepts the confessional writings of the Reformation period, found in the Book of Concord, as valid interpretations of the faith and the church.
  6. This congregation believes the Church to be a people created by God in Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit, called and sent to bear witness to God’s creative, redeeming, and sanctifying activity in the world.