The Apostles’ Creed
2008 October 31
We have been talking for a long, long time of doing a video of The Apostles’ Creed. Well last week that dream became a reality during our services. Even I made an appearance in the video.
Kent did an absolutely killer job with this video. I love the mix of traditional sounds and the hip hop feel.
I’m not a huge fan of liturgy during Sunday morning worship services, but I think a creative video is a great way to introduce timeless truths about the Christian faith to old and young.
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It’s less than two minutes…definitely worth the watch.
Well done. I like the hip hop kick.
I’m just curious how many people at church were thrown by the “descended into hell” part, to say nothing of the “holy catholic church” stuff.
But the video was extremely well done.
I must admit being baffled by the “holy Catholic church” line, every time we use the creed in church, too. Can you illuminate this for us?
When the Creed was written Catholic was the only church. Catholic also means universal…so it is speaking of the church of believers not just Catholics.
The descended into hell part is spoken of in Ephesians I believe, so it has premise.
Yeah, I wondered about the Catholic church part too. Thanks for clarifying.
Very cool.
“Descended into hell” only means Jesus went to the grave. It derives from the fact that the KJV translated “Hades” as “Hell.” Hades was simply the Greek term for the place where everybody goes after death. “Because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.” (KJV says “in Hell”, but we’re obviously talking about the grave here)
Some would connect it to the passage in 1 Peter 3 that speaks of Christ preaching to the Spirits in Prison, but I think those connections are erroneous.