I am curious which version of the Apostles' Creed everyone uses at their church worship services (if the creed is used)?

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Rev. Andy Eppard
Associate Minister
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Springfield, MO

No Apostles Creed used in my church nor any Creed for that matter although I have no objections to it being used in Worship.

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Wayne Whitmer
Member, Rio Rancho OPC
Albuquerque, NM

We use it occasionally (twice a year, perhaps), and the version we use is a modernized one printed in our hymn (e.g., "living" instead of "quick"; "universal" instead of "catholic"). For a confession of faith, we normally read responsively through the Westminster Shorter Catechism.

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Tim Phillips
Pastor, Midlane Park Presbyterian Church (ARP)
Louisville, KY
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Tim, how does that version translate descendit ad inferna?

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Lance G. Marshall
Pastor
Georgetown, Indiana

"He descended into hades."

BTW, I see I made a couple of mistakes; this version still uses the word "quick." It also says "the holy Christian church." Oh well, it's late.

We use the version printed in the back of the 1990 Trinity Hymnal (aka the Red Book) which states (a little too confidently, I believe) that Christ descended into hell.

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Richard T. Zuelch, M.Div
Ruling Elder, OPC (not currently serving)
Westminster Presbyterian Church, CA (OPC)
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Devout souls do not take offence at the depths and difficulties of God's Word, but are, thereby, drawn to intenser contemplation of them. - Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910)

We recite the Nicene Creed at our church every Sunday morning. Although, the version that we use uses "We" instead of "I."

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Joel de Leon
Member (man under care)
Christ Presbyterian Church, OPC
Salt Lake City, UT

The Cleansed Leper

We recite the Creed each week. Usually the Apostles Creed, but sometimes the Nicene. We use "I" The words hell and holy catholic church remain but are asterisked and explained at the bottom of the page.

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Donnie MacLeod
Crossroads Presbyterian Fellowship (PCA), Maplewood, MO
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You filled my heart with greater joy
than others may have found
As they rejoiced at harvest time,
when grain and wine abound.Ps 4:7, Sing Psalms 2003

We use it here and I think we only have one version

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Martin - Reformed
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We alternate between the the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed, as printed in the red Trinity Hymnal. I was recently at my old PCA church and they used the "original" version and it made me stumble a bit.

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JWithnell
Member Bethel OPC
Virginia
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The congregation I am a member of uses the older version of the Apostles Creed (Hell, Catholic Church, etc) for the Sunday morning service. On communion Sundays, once a quarter for us, we recite the Nicene Creed.

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Adam
RPC-Hanover
Manasssas, VA

We use the modernized version in the Red Trinity Hymnal. And to reply to an earlier post, this version makes ME stumble.

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Edward
Deacon
PCA
Texas

The transition to the newer one was an adjustment. (It just uses modern language, it does not water down the words.) I love having the creeds as part of worship -- we say them loudly!

We recite every Sunday evening:

1. I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of
heaven and earth;
2. And in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, our
Lord;
3. Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the
Virgin Mary;
4. Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead,
and buried; He descended into hell;
5. The third day He rose again from the dead;
6. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right
hand of God the Father Almighty;
7. From thence He shall come to judge the living and
the dead.
8. I believe in the Holy Spirit.
9. I believe an holy catholic church; the communion
of saints;
10. The forgiveness of sins;
11. The resurrection of the body;
12. And the life everlasting. AMEN.

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Nate
Protestant Reformed Churches in America
Ann Arbor, MI

We recite the Red Trinity version every Sunday -though I prefer the Nicene.

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Pax,
Richard Elliott
Midlothian, Virginia
Deacon, Presbyterian Church in America
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. , C. S. Lewis

We use the one printed in the Red Trinity hymnal as well.

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

(Red) Trinity Hymnal, alternate each week between the AC and NC.

You may want to know, jwithnell and I attend the same church.

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Brian Withnell
Deacon, OPC
Leesburg, Virginia

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