THE STORY WE TRUST
The Great Story of God – A Common Christian Confession
The Great Story of God
God reveals Himself as the perfect creative artist, the intelligent designer, and the Almighty. He created everything we can marvel at and discover—and even what we have not yet been able to comprehend. In this way, He left His fingerprints all over our world.
Because God's very nature is relational, He placed us into a web of relationships—good, life-giving, and world-shaping ones. A relationship with Him, our Creator. Relationships with each other—in families, with loved ones, colleagues, and neighbors. A relationship with ourselves—so that we can honor our own lives and live with joy. And relationships with creation: with nature, the world, our work, schools, healthcare, strangers, and others. Everything was beautiful, until…
…it broke. Humanity turned its back on God, doubting that He knows what's truly best for us. And the consequences are plain to see. Every relationship is now painfully fractured—marked by anger, anxiety, aggression, bitterness, loneliness, wars, contempt, judgment, emptiness, and distorted desires.
The world is broken. We are broken. I am broken.
But God did not leave us to bleed out. In His love and eternal plan, He chose to restore the world—making it even better than it was in the beginning. God didn't just come to improve humanity from a distance; He entered it personally. This happened in the birth of Jesus Christ, God's only Son. In Jesus, God came and lived in our universe, in our world. God the King became our servant. God the Prophet spoke and revealed Himself to our ears and eyes. God the Priest offered His own life as a sacrifice for the sins of people—for yours and for mine.
On the third day He rose again. Life defeated death. Hope overcame despair. And our broken lives received the spark and power for full renewal. Because Jesus lives, we can now live a life of daily renewal—of mutual growth, of joyful worship. And all this not only when life is good, but especially in a world full of pain and loss.
That's why we strive to be people of wisdom, courage, and realism. We want to passionately, authentically, and freely build relationships—with God, with each other, and with the world around us. We care about making the world better. We care about not being the ones who create more problems and pain, but the ones who help bring healing.
And in the end, God will restore the world perfectly—and then we will breathe out in gratitude.
Together with all Christians, we confess…
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.
And we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Nicene Creed (325)