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Not to be a stickler, but most Christian sects have creeds and sacraments. We just sometimes disagree on how many of each. The difference is that the Lutherans tend to have a 'higher' view of the sacraments than the Calvinistic sects, but a lower view than the Roman Catholics. To use communion as an example, my church teaches that at communion, the bread and wine are symbols of the body and blood. The RC church teaches that they physically become Christ's body and blood (transubstatiaion). The Lutheran church teaches something somewhere in the middle, which I don't really understand, though I know the name (consubstantiation).
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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