“Seek to show hospitality” (Rom. 12:13). Among the apostles’ many exhortations in Romans 12 none may be more powerful for the life of the Christian and the Christian’s local church. You see, it is one thing for Paul to say love one another with brotherly affection (Rom 12:10) but quite another to say seek to show hospitality. The former is an attitude while the latter is an action; one is a creed and the other [...]

The Short Answer: The English word ‘creed’ comes from the Greek credo, which simply means ‘I believe.’ Everyone has beliefs about what the Bible teaches. Though people sometimes claim to have ‘no creed but Christ,’ we find on closer questioning they often have very different ideas about who Jesus was and what he did for us. We believe having written statements of essential beliefs—creeds as well as their longer cousins, confessions—help [...]