This We Confess | The Church: One Body

When the creeds say, “I believe in the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,” they’re not pointing us to a building or a denomination.  They’re pointing us to a story bigger than ourselves.

As we continue our This We Confess series, guest speaker Geoffrey Kruger explains how the church is the ekklesia: God’s people called out to belong to Christ. That’s why the Nicene Creed describes it as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. United by faith, set apart by grace, spread across every culture and generation, and grounded in the teaching of the apostles with Christ as the cornerstone.

From there we’re drawn into the communion of saints which is the truth that believers past and present are bound together in Christ. Our worship is never just our voices in one room; it’s part of a chorus that stretches across centuries.

And at the center of it all: the forgiveness of sins. Scripture uses image after image to describe what Christ has done. On the cross, He took our sin and gave us His righteousness. That is the great exchange that is the heartbeat of our faith.

The creeds remind us that this story is not new or self-invented.  It’s the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and when we confess it together, we anchor ourselves in the truth of who we are, and whose we are.