We the members of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church believe that in response to God's Good News we give God praise in all that we do, specially through worship together, Bible study groups, fellowship and mission outreach. We also believe that we can't always live our faith perfectly. That is why we need the forgiveness of our Savior Jesus.

A childhood staple food is the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. In my own life, it makes it hard to enjoy a piece of toast with just peanut butter or just jelly – I want them both, together, because that's how it's supposed to be. If a child opened his lunchbox and just had a jelly sandwich, or just had a peanut butter sandwich, his classmates might wonder what was going on. Because it doesn't make sense to have one without the other, we like to have both.
Believe it or not, the forgiveness that we get from God is much the same way. We can and do say that our forgiveness was won for us on Jesus' cross. Without the death and resurrection of the Son of God, there would be no forgiveness. He took on human flesh to take away our sins. He rose from the dead to prove His identity as the Son of God and as our Savior. But sometimes it seems like the cross is so far away from us. We wonder what the death of a man on the other side of the world two thousand years ago has to do with me today.

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