Sunday, September 23, 2007

A New Creed

We are not alone, we live in God's world.
We believe in God:
   who has created and is creating,
   who has come in Jesus the Word made flesh,
   to reconcile and make us new
   who works in us and others by the Spirit.
We trust in God.
We are called to be the church:
   to celebrate God's presence,
   to live with respect in creation,
   to love and serve others,
   to seek justice and resist evil,
   to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
   our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
   God is with us.
We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.

Commentary:
- I encountered this while attending a United Church service, and it was one of the factors in finally getting this project started. I had not intended for it to be the first one (quite likely it will be moved later), but I felt I should post it before I lost the bulletin it came from.
- It is unfortunate that it is called the "New" Creed, as this results in it being confused with any new creeds that appear on this site. In order to avoid confusion, quotation marks and capitalization will be used to mark this creed as different from other more recently developed creeds.
- A quick check of Wikipedia suggests that slightly different line breaks and indentation are normal. Unless this is found to significantly affect the meaning during analysis, the line breaks found in the bulletin I pulled this from will be used (mostly because I don't feel like changing it at this point).

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