Creedo

What's the essential tenant of your faith? If you were to boil it down, what would be left? Karl Barth said it was the first verse to hymn #304 (I'll let you look that up). Martin Luther found great comfort in these three words "I am baptized." What would be your 'creedo'? How might you sum up a key aspect of your faith? Let me know what you come up with. In the meantime, might these words be grist for the thinking mill. Peace, Matt

Q. What is your only comfort, in life and in death?
a. That I belong–--body and soul, in life and in death–--not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, that everything must fit his purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and make me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

Q. How many things must you know that you may live and die in the blessedness of this comfort?
a. Three, first, the greatness of my sin and wretchedness. Second, how I am freed from all my sins and their wretched consequences. Third, what gratitude I owe to God for such redemption.

---Questions one and two, Heidelberg Catechism.