Historically we Baptists are considered "non-creedal". Isn't that what you learned in seminary? Yet I wonder...
Would a creed unite us more or simply cause us to be exclusionary?
Would a creed create boundaries that so many yearn for or would it just fence people out?
Would a confession of communal belief hurt anyone?
Well.... yes, it would separate the "ins" from the "outs"; it might even "speak" for God - turning human thought into God's thought. It might even say who is called and who is not.
Doesn't Christianty divide by its very nature? When we join Christians of old and new in reciting the Apostle's or Nicene Creed is it truly offensive? Are the words themselves not true, or at least close to true? How is reciting a creed different from declaring the faith of our hymnody in melody and harmony?
I struggle with the desire to be unified in theology and praxis and at the same time shutter to think we, the church, might require all to "sign on the dotted line". In truth, the struggle is great for me. How do we declare, as a congregation, what we believe without it becoming a mandate?
What do you think? Do you struggle, too? Or is it just I who wonders?????
God be with you,
Trisha
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