Session 10

The Apostles Creed Study

1.      the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints,

“16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.” (1Corinthians 10:16-17 NKJV)

In the Celebration of Communion we see the Church and the communion of the saints of God revealed for us to see.  The loaf is the union of the Body of Christ not divided by denomination or schism.  All one united and even when the loaf is broken and shared among Christians than the loaf remains whole because it is in the Body of Christ. 

For the first 1,000 years there was only the Holy Catholic Church of one Body in Jesus.  There were differences and separations between areas and in those areas their might be differing beliefs, but the writing of the Apostles which would soon become the Bible guided them and united them.  This is not the Roman Catholic Church which came about when they broke with what became the Orthodox Church.

We are united under “One Lord, One Faith and One Baptism”.  What unites us, or should I say Who unites us should be more important than what separates us!

            “12 ¶ For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.” (1Corinthians 12:12-13 NKJV)

What has caused the division in the Church?

What should unite us as a Body and as a Church?

Who does the “communion of saints” include to you?