I’m part of the Audio-visual team at Lakeside Church (Elim) Southport, and being part of being a member of the AV Team, (not the A-team) is
that I get the opportunity to attend the worship team practice on a Thursday
night, this means I can set up the words for the songs that we will sing on a
Sunday, we use a system called EasyWorship 6, which is very user friendly.
One of the songs we sing is This I believe (The Creed) from the No other
name album, like many of you who read
this blog, I have listened to and have been blessed by a number of Hillsong’s
songs for the best part of 20 plus years, although recently because of the rise
of Bethel and Jesus Culture, I listen to
less Hillsong’s albums that I would have listened to in the past, with Worship and Praise music, there tend to
be both fad’s and fashions, and yesterday’s greatest worship songs, tend to lie in the land of forgotten hits
today, like many you I can recall many
of those worship golden oldies.
Being Welsh and coming from a musical background,
although I don’t play a musical instrument and sing off key, I enjoy both singing to (although like a lot
of Welsh men, think I sound like a cross between Tom Jones and Bryn Terfel!)
and listening to music. In my heart, I’m a worshipper. When I listened to the
words, I thought what great theology.
Here are the words:
“VERSE
Our Father everlasting
The all creating One
God Almighty
Through Your Holy Spirit
Conceiving Christ the Son
Jesus our Saviour
CHORUS
I believe in God our Father
I believe in Christ the Son
I believe in the Holy Spirit
Our God is three in one
I believe in the resurrection
That we will rise again
For I believe in the Name of
Jesus
VERSE
Our Judge and our Defender
Suffered and crucified
Forgiveness is in You
Descended into darkness
You rose in glorious life
Forever seated high
BRIDGE
I believe in You
I believe You rose again
I believe that Jesus Christ is
Lord
CHORUS
I believe in life eternal
I believe in the virgin birth
I believe in the saints'
communion
And in Your holy Church
I believe in the resurrection
When Jesus comes again
For I believe in the Name of
Jesus”
Hillsongs
When I read through the words for this
wonderful worship song, I was trying to
find which of the early Church creeds,
it was based upon, I found elements
of both the Apostles’ Creed, read more on the
Apostles' Creed here and the Nicene Creed, read more on the Nicene Creed
here
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator
of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was
conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead .On the
third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right
hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead .I
believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins ,the resurrection of
the body, and the life everlasting.
Amen.
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the
power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our
sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will
come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the
giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and
glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic
Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness
of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Both are taken from the Book of Common Prayer.
Further Reading:
Jesus is the Saviour, the Healer, the Baptiser
in the Holy Spirit and the Coming King.
Yours by His Grace, for the sake of His Commission, Church and Kingdom
Blair Humphreys, Southport, Merseyside, England,
UK.
