Apostles' Creed: The Holy Catholic Church & Communion of Saints // Rev. Matt Kennedy // Aug 3 2025

About 65% of Americans describe their religion as “Christian” but less than half of those belong to a congregation or regularly attend worship services. This tells us maybe the hardest thing to believe about Christianity is not so much that Jesus was born of a virgin or that he  rose from the dead, but that God has instituted, “the holy catholic church, the communion of saints.” Here in the 8th week of our sermon series on the Apostles’ Creed we turn to the topic of church and why it holds a central place in Christian faith because God’s great story is not just about the redemption of persons, but people. The gospel is about reconciliation not only as individuals before God, but in community with one another across boundaries of race, class, and sex. Historic doctrine tells us God’s very being is a community of mutual love and cooperation, “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”. It seems God desires the same community of mutuality for the people he loves, “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.”