When I considered my personal Christian growth study options for 2021, I was struck by the need to dive deeper into The Apostles’ Creed. That led me to my One Word focus of “Basic”—a return to the fundamentals.
I appreciated the analogy Matt Chandler used to describe The Creed. He pointed out that the Moon is not a light source. Rather, it reflects the light of the Sun. In the same way, The Apostles’ Creed is not our source, but it reflects Scripture—our source of truth and life.
J.I. Packer explains, “If life is a journey, then the million-word-long Holy Bible is the large-scale map with everything in it, and the hundred-word Apostles’ Creed is the simplified road map.”
And as Ben Myers put it, “The Christian faith is mysterious not because it is so complicated but because it is so simple; and the Creed captures the simplicity of our basic beliefs.”
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