Join the Fellowship

  • STEP ONE.

    Complete the application form below. This will help us get to to know you and why you want to use The GCF platform. We’ll review your application and email you soon thereafter.

    We ask everyone who applies to agree to at least one of the historic Christian creeds.

    Please note: all members of the GCF should do their own vetting when considering partnerships with others whom they meet in the GCF.

  • STEP TWO.

    If accepted, you will receive a welcome email with an invitation to join a platform called Basecamp.

    For help on using the Basecamp platform, check out Basecamp’s help articles and tutorials. You can use Basecamp on a browser or via one of their apps for computers, phones, and tablets.

    Once you’re inside Basecamp, you can create your own private team or ask to join an existing team space. Everyone inside our Basecamp account will have access to the GCF team, but can also ask to join other teams and even start their own proviate team (or project) space.

    Please note: all members of GCF should do their own vetting when considering partnerships with others whom they meet in GCF.

Christian Creeds

If you have questions about the usefulness of creeds, we recommend this helpful article, which includes summaries of these historic Christian creeds.

Please review one or more of the below historic Christian creeds so you can identify which one(s) you subscribe to in your application.

 
  • I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth;

    And in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, our Lord;

    Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary;

    Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried: He descended into hell;

    The third day he rose again from the dead;

    He ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;

    From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead;

    I believe in the Holy Ghost;

    I believe in the holy catholic church: the communion of saints;

    The forgiveness of sins;

    The resurrection of the body;

    And the life everlasting. Amen.

  • We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of all things, visible and invisible;

    And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten from the Father, only-begotten, that is, from the essence of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, of one essence with the Father, through Whom all things came into being, things in heaven and things on earth,

    Who because of us men and because of our salvation came down and became incarnate, becoming man, suffered and rose again on the third day, ascended to the heavens, and will come again to judge the living and the dead;

    And in the Holy Spirit.

  • We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;

    And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father; by whom all things were made:

    Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man;

    And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;

    And the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures;

    And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father;

    And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end.

    And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke by the Prophets;

    And we believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

    We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins.

    We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come.

    Amen.

  • Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith.

    Which faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

    And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.

    For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit.

    But the godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.

    Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit.

    The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.

    The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.

    The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal.

    And yet they are not three eternals, but one Eternal.

    As also there are not three incomprehensibles, nor three uncreated, but one Uncreated, and one Incomprehensible.

    So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Spirit Almighty. And yet they are not three almighties, but one Almighty.

    So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet they are not three gods, but one God.

    So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord. And yet not three lords, but one Lord.

    For as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge each Person by Himself to be both God and Lord, so we are also forbidden by the catholic religion to say that there are three gods or three lords.

    The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone, not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Father, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

    So there is one Father, not three fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.

    And in Trinity none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another, but all three Persons are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.

    He therefore that will be saved must think thus of the Trinity.

    Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man;

    God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and man of the substance of his mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect man, of a rational soul and human flesh subsisting.

    Equal to the Father, as touching His godhead; and inferior to the Father, as touching His manhood; who, although He is God and man, yet he is not two, but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether; not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.

    For as the rational soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ; who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead.

    He ascended into heaven, He sits at the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence He will come to judge the quick and the dead.

    At His coming all men will rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works.

    And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.

    This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved.

  • We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood;

    truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with us according to the manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin;

    begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood;

    one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably;

    the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.

The texts of the above creeds were copied from CCEL, Theopedia, and Orthodoxwiki.

 

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