Today marks the 492nd anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession before Emperor Charles V. The Lutheran princes made this confession to prove to the Emperor and the Roman Catholic Church that the Evangelical Lutherans were not a sect who had abandoned the Holy Christian faith. To this day, faithful Lutherans confess that we are part of the church catholic (that is, the one, universal church of Christ).
The Augsburg Confession can be broken up into two parts. The first part (Articles 1-21) proclaims what the Evangelical Lutheran confession is and that it has not strayed at all from the historic, Christian faith. The second part (Articles 22-28) addresses some of the abuses that had found their way into the Roman church. It names them, shows them to be false teaching and practice, and explains why the Lutherans have corrected or rejected them.
The text of the Augsburg Confession can be found here: https://bookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/. It does not take too long to read through it, and it would be time well spent.
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