The Value of Creeds

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  1. 2. Creeds are useful in teaching truth to children and new _______.
  2. 4. Most creeds were written to ______ truths.
  3. 5. Creeds promote _____ because truth brings unity.
  4. 10. Churches that have no creeds have an appalling _____ of the teachings of Scripture.
  5. 11. When we confess our faith together, we _____ all those believers who have gone before us.
  6. 13. One of the 3 creeds of the PRCA is called the _______ of Dordt.
  7. 15. The Spirit guides us into ______. John 16:13
  8. 17. It is ______ for a church to try to stand on its own and fight battles when faithful churches in the past have already done so.
  9. 18. Creeds are _____ - they take all the passages of Scripture regarding a truth and put them together into a statement of doctrine.
  10. 20. The creeds are the product of many ______ of Bible study by a great company of believers.
  11. 21. The creeds show that the Spirit works in the hearts of _______.
  12. 22. Creeds tell the ______ what believers find in the Word of God.
  13. 23. Another creed the PRCA hold to is the ______ Confession.
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  1. 1. "Whosoever, therefore, shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My ______ which is heaven." Matthew 10:32
  2. 3. When a creed is true to the Bible, it does not need to be changed again and again, because it deals with things that are ______.
  3. 6. Creeds are also called _______.
  4. 7. Creeds are only valuable if they are ______.
  5. 8. The word "creed" comes from the Latin word _____, which means "I believe".
  6. 9. Creeds do not replace Scripture; creeds claim that Scripture is the only _____.
  7. 12. Creeds express the _____ that lives in our hearts.
  8. 14. The three creeds of the PRCA are called the Three ______ of Unity.
  9. 16. The use of creeds is _______.
  10. 19. Nearly every Sunday in the PRCA, one sermon is preached using the _______ Catechism as its text.