WOF 496: The Evangelical Power of the Nicene Creed

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Nicene Creed was written 1,700 years ago and is one of the earliest summations of the core doctrinal beliefs of the Christian faith. We continue to recite it to this day at almost every Sunday Mass. Yet despite its foundational importance to Catholic belief and practice, the Creed remains an underutilized resource not only for catechesis but also evangelization. Today we discuss the enduring importance of the Creed and how we can employ its truths about the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Virgin Mary, the dark reality of sin, the hope of salvation, and much more to evangelize the culture.

A listener asks how he can love his neighbor as himself if he doesn’t love himself.

00:00 | Introduction
01:21 | An Introduction to Prayer is now available in Chinese
03:30 | Do creeds matter?
08:55 | Relating the Apostle’s Creed to the Nicene Creed
11:02 | Christianity centers around a man and an event
12:14 | Why the book What Christians Believe matters now
15:36 | The Christian creeds as defensible
19:19 | “I believe” or “we believe”?
22:48 | Faith, reason, and adventure
27:54 | God and creation
31:53 | The hardest but most important doctrine
34:33 | The Nicene Creed and the story of salvation
35:48 | Practical tips for using the Nicene Creed in evangelical work
36:58 | Listener question: How can I love my neighbor as myself, if I don’t love myself?
39:20 | Join the Word on Fire Institute

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What Christians Believe: https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/what-christians-believe-box-of-20
Word on Fire Institute: https://institute.wordonfire.org/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Word on Fire show. I'm Matthew Petrucic Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire show.
0:05.6	Thanks for being with us. The Nicene Creed was written 1,700 years ago and is one of the earliest summations of the core doctrinal beliefs of the Christian faith.
0:16.8	We continue to recite it in community to this this day, at almost every Sunday Mass.
0:22.2	Yet despite its foundational importance to Catholic belief in practice, the creed remains an underutilized
0:27.7	resource not only for catechesis, teaching ourselves about the faith, but also evangelization,
0:33.6	inviting others into the faith. It's precisely for this reason that Bishop Barron recently released
0:38.7	a new highly accessible book about the creed called What Christians Believe, which I'm happy
0:44.2	to report has already sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In today's Word on Fire show,
0:49.0	Bishop Barron joins us to discuss the enduring importance of the creed and how we can employ its truths about the Trinity,
0:55.5	the incarnation, the blessed virgin,
0:57.4	the dark reality of sin, the hope of salvation,
0:59.9	and much, much more to evangelize the culture
1:02.1	and to invite people to or back to a full relationship
1:05.4	with Jesus Christ and his church,
1:07.7	which is our whole mission here at Word on Fire.
1:10.5	Come join us.
1:21.6	Bishop, welcome back to the studio.
1:23.5	Thanks, Matt.
1:24.2	Always going to be with you.
1:25.1	So today we're looking at the evangelical power of the Nicene Creed,
1:29.2	recognizing that it's an underutilized resource for evangelization.
1:33.2	But before we do, I want to point out and get your reaction to this book I'm holding right here,
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