I Believe

   ABBOT’S LEIGH 8.7.8.7 D ("Lord, You Give the Great Commission") 

 

I believe in God the Father, the Almighty God above,
Maker of the earth and heaven which were formed in God's great love.
And in Jesus, loving Jesus, God's own Son, who makes us new.
This, the creed of generations, is the faith for our church, too.

Jesus, by God's Holy Spirit, was so wondrously conceived,
Born unto the Virgin Mary, who your promises believed.
Jesus suffering under Pilate, on a cross was crucified.
Soldiers mocked him, friends denied him; he hung there until he died.

So it was, our Lord was buried, in a borrowed tomb he lay.
To the dead he then descended, where was joy on earth that day?
There is more to God's great story: in three days he rose again.
He ascended into heaven, and he sits at God's right hand.

I believe what God has promised: Christ will come as he has said.
He will judge the nations' peoples, both the living and the dead.
I believe God's Holy Spirit makes the church one family.
We're surrounded by God's people, saints who in our Lord believe.

I believe that God forgives us for the times we turn away,
And that God will raise our bodies on that resurrection day.
We rejoice we'll live forever, singing praise to God's great name.
This, the creed of generations, is the faith that we proclaim.

Tune:  Cyr­il V. Tay­lor, 1941.  Tune © 1941, renewed 1970, Hope Publishing Company.
Text: Copyright © 1998 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved. Reproduced from Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today's Worship by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, Geneva Press, 2000.

 

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Alternate Tune:  Franz Joseph Haydn, 1797.  AUSTRIAN HYMN 8.7.8.7D ("Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken") 

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Please email Carolyn at bcgillette@comcast.net for permission to use this hymn. Thank you.

 

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is the author of Gifts of Love:  New Hymns for Today’s Worship (Geneva Press, 2000) and the co-pastor of the Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware after serving ten years as the co-pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Pitman, NJ.  Click here for a complete list of her hymns. 

 

Study Catechism of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has a helpful series of questions and answers (#5-88) about the Apostles’ Creed:  http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/confession/studycatechism.htm

 

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