Creeds

I am fascinated by creeds. Having grown up in a religious background that taught sharply against any form of creeds, I (as most people do when they are taught to avoid something) have studied quite a creeds in finding my own religious path. One of the amazing things is the journey has keep me in the faith of my youth, but with a better and broader understanding of what others believe about God, faith and our relationships and, more perhaps importantly, what I believe about God's relationship with me. Creeds (or statements of faith) are simply easy ways to remember what we believe and to codify that belief into basic, step-by-step forms.

I have found that far from being a religion without creeds, true Christianity is, in one-line of thinking, one HUGE creed {what is Scripture but a God-given creed (or the statement of what God believes)?}.

Ten Commandments? Proverbs? Sermon on the Mount? Lord's Prayer? All could be, in one sense of the word, considered creeds. Our English word "creed" comes from the Latin "credo" which simply means "I believe..." So what is your creed? Apostles'? Nicene? Wesley's? Calvin's? Campbell's? Graham's? Lucado's? Norrid's?

I hope and pray my creed is credo Christus. While I appreciate the statements of belief of others and I stand upon their shoulders to see God more clearly, I want my creed to not just be a recited statement or a transfered idea stolen from another man's soul: I want it to be a living flame of consuming belief.

Make some statements of belief and then challenge yourself to live by them. Professing a creed is not as difficult as living one.

blessings,

-Will