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Table Talk: What is your usual response when someone asks you the very general question, “What do you believe?” – does it make a difference if the questioner is a believer, or a not-yet-believer, or if you don’t know?
[“Table Talk” is an opening question or topic for discussion at the beginning of our time together. The intent is to help group members (around tables, with four to six at each table) build connections with each other, as well as to guide thinking in a direction related to the passage.]
Our first discussion about the Apostles’ Creed began by comparing past experiences with creeds in church. Some members of our group have a Roman Catholic background, and they remembered reciting the Creed every week and being required to memorize it. Others had little or no exposure to creeds. Some with a background in a conservative denomination had learned that creeds were unnecessary at best, maybe even dangerous. One person mentioned being unable to say the words “holy catholic church.” So we start with a wonderfully diverse background when it comes to Christian creeds. Continue reading