Many of the adults in my church -- and perhaps many in yours, too -- were required to
memorize the Apostles' Creed somewhere along the way. In Sunday school classes, in
confirmation, in catechism -- the Apostles' Creed has long been standard equipment in
the training and preparing of young people in church. And in many of our congregations,
that historic articulation and affirmation of faith is regularly recited in worship.
You and I know, from the context of church history, that those early creeds were often
