Here She Stands is an independent, faith-based organisation of Lutheran women. We are united by and under Christ Jesus through His death, resurrection, and ascension for our salvation.

We accept without reservation the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as a whole and in all their parts, as the divinely inspired, written and inerrant Word of God, and as the only infallible source and norm for all matters of faith, doctrine, and life. We confess that the Bible is without qualification God’s Word.

We treat the Bible as sufficient to instruct us in all matters pertaining to the Christian faith, since it is capable of making us wise unto salvation and thoroughly equipping us for every good work (2 Timothy 3:14-17; John 20:31).

We believe that the Bible speaks clearly, since it is “a lamp shining in a dark place” (2 Peter 1:19).

Furthermore, Here She Stands holds to the clear, biblical, and evangelical teachings of the Lutheran Confessions. And we acknowledge and accept as true expositions of the Word of God and as our own confession all the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church contained in the Book of Concord of 1580, namely, the three Ecumenical Creeds: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed; the Unaltered Augsburg Confession; the Apology of the Augsburg Confession; the Smalcald Articles; the Small Catechism of Luther; the Large Catechism of Luther; and the Formula of Concord.

We confess that in the beginning God created this world and its creatures out of nothing, according to His good designs, not through a natural process but through the supernatural power of His Word (Genesis 1 – 2).

The sickness, pain, death, and ongoing struggle to survive that we now experience in our world is not the result of God’s original design for His creation but is instead the result of human sin and the curse of the fall (Genesis 3; Romans 5:12).

We reject all attempts to modify biblical teaching on creation to fit with human theories about this world and its origins, and we strive to treat every human life as a precious gift that God has created in His own image (Genesis 9:5-7; James 3:9-10) by treating all human beings with dignity and respect.

Thereby we reject abortion, euthanasia, slavery, medical experimentation and treatment without informed consent, and all attempts to demean or exploit any person, race, caste, class, or group of people.

We trust in the Triune God as the one who continues to uphold his creation (Hebrews 1:3), who provides us with our earthly needs (Matthew 6:25-34), and who is at work to remake His redeemed people as His new creation (Colossians 3:9-10).

We honour marriage as a gift of God, who has created human beings as male and female, created marriage as the life-long union of one man and one woman, ordained marriage as the means through which He gives His blessing of children (Genesis 1:27-28; Matthew 19:4-6); and reserved his gifts of sexual intimacy and procreation for the context of marriage; and honour God’s good design for human life and work in this world by striving to live in harmony with what He teaches us about human vocations (e.g. Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Acts 4:19-20; 5:29; Romans 12-13; Ephesians 5:22 – 6:20; Colossians 3:1 – 4:6; 1 Peter 2:13 – 3:12; Table of Duties in the Small Catechism).

Here She Stands is built on the foundation of Christ and the Good News. Therefore, we proclaim a message of repentance and forgiveness in Jesus’ name (Luke 24:47).

We confess that we must be justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone and we trust in Christ’s atoning death as both necessary and sufficient for our salvation (Romans 3:21-28; Ephesians 2:8-9).

So, we strive to speak this Good News of forgiveness and salvation through Christ to others, and to allow it to predominate in our thoughts, words and actions.

At Here She Stands we regard God’s Law as holy and good (Romans 7:12), and as essential for the Christian life, since it reveals to us God’s will for us as His creatures, exposes our sin, and thereby reveals our need for Christ as our Saviour. We also reject all forms of self-justification as contrary to the Good News, including attempts to use God’s Law as a path to salvation, perverting the Good News into a message of human good works, replacing God’s Law with human laws through which we attempt to justify ourselves; and suppressing or undermining God’s Law so that we can deny our sin, presume a false innocence, and thereby minimise or deny our need for repentance and forgiveness through Christ.