What we as a community believe, teach, and base our lives upon can best be summed up by The Apostle’s Creed. The earliest written form of this creed is found in a letter written to the bishop of Rome in about AD 341. It’s called The Apostles’ Creed because it includes the essential teaching of the 12 apostles, Jesus’ earliest followers. It was into that faith of the apostles that Christians were, and are, baptized today. The Apostles’ Creed is specific enough to be distinctively Christian, but generous enough to allow us to have a diversity of theological thought among us while living in unity with one another.

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic* church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

*that is, the true Christian church of all times and all places