CREED

Snippet

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Scripture

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. John 20:1-8

Song

Creed by Rich Mullins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LR2hFP1yb4

I believe in God the Father almighty

Maker of Heaven and Maker of Earth

And in Jesus Christ

His only begotten Son, our Lord

He was conceived by the Holy Spirit

Born of the virgin Mary

Suffered under Pontius Pilate

He was crucified and dead and buried

CHORUS:

And I believe what I believe

Is what makes me what I am

I did not make it, no it is making me

It is the very truth of God and not

The invention of any man

I believe that He who suffered

Was crucified, buried, and dead

He descended into hell and

On the third day, rose again

He ascended into Heaven where

He sits at God's mighty right hand

I believe that He's returning to

Judge the quick and the dead

Of the sons of men

CHORUS

I believe it, I believe it

I believe it

I believe it, I believe it

I believe in God the Father almighty

Maker of Heaven and Maker of Earth

And in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son,

Our Lord

I believe in the Holy Spirit

One Holy Church, the communion of Saints

The forgiveness of sin

I believe in the resurrection

I believe in a life that never ends

CHORUS

I believe it, I believe

I believe it, I believe

I believe it, I believe it

Sentence Prayer

Risen Christ,

We come with songs of joy and words of praise

For your powerful love and life-giving grace.

Like those first disciples

Who ran to your empty tomb,

Calm our hurried thoughts,

That we might hear the message

Of your resurrection.

Like the grieving Mary

Who searched in the garden,

Reveal yourself to us,

That we might know your presence

And heed your call.

Transform our doubts into faith,

That we might be a resurrection community,

Revealing your loving presence

For all the world to see.

(The Abingdon Worship Annual 2011 page 101)