Our Logo

St. Paul’s logo evokes the long-standing Christian symbol of the Jerusalem Cross, which has a larger central cross and four smaller crosses, signifying the cross on which Jesus earned the forgiveness of our sins and His five wounds on that cross. The four smaller crosses are sometimes taken as representing either the four evangelists who report Jesus’s death on the cross and resurrection of the grave or the four compass directions that the report of the cross goes. The Jerusalem cross suggests mission, as Pope Urban II (1042-1099) reportedly gave it for the first crusade (1095-1099), which was to free Jerusalem and Christians there from Islamic rule.

  In St. Paul's logo, the four images themselves form a central cross, and a cross is the first of the four images (upper left). Like the congregation's namesake, St. Paul, we preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified (1 Corinthians 1:23). More than “only” scripture, grace, and faith, “Christ alone” was and remains a watchword of the churches of the Lutheran Reformation.

  The second image (upper right) rightly reflects our emphasis on God's Word, Holy Scripture, through which the Holy Spirit testifies of the God-man Jesus Christ (John 15:26; 5:39) and calls us both to repent of our sins and to believe the Good News that by grace alone through faith alone God forgives our sins.