A Christmas Creed
Introduction:
I found this creed a few years ago on the following website: www.prayer-and-prayers.info. Unfortunately, no individual author is listed. The site says: “All Pictures and details of the Prayer and Prayers website are provided for informational and educational purposes only and are subject to all U.S. copyright laws and remain property of their respective owners.” (Updated March, 2015). I have used this creed a few times on Christmas Eve.
I believe in Jesus Christ and in the beauty of the gospel begun in Bethlehem.
I believe in the one whose spirit glorified a little town and whose spirit still brings music to persons all over the world.
I believe in the one for whom the crowded inn could find no room, but who transformed the place by his very presence.
I believe in the one who the rulers of the earth ignored and the proud could never understand; whose life was among common people, whose welcome came from persons with hungry hearts.
I believe in the one whose cradle was a mother’s arms, who looked at persons and made them see what God’s love saw in them, who by love brought sinners back to purity, and lifted human weakness up to meet the strength of God.
I confess my ever-lasting need of God: The need of forgiveness for my selfishness and greed, the need of new life for empty souls, the need of love for hearts grown cold.
I believe in God who gives us the best of himself.
I believe in Jesus, the Son of God, born in Bethlehem this night, for me and for the world.
Amen.