Think about the challenge to the Church as a new century dawned, a century without a living apostle.  What do we believe?  What is the core of beliefs that the apostles bequeathed to the Church?  What does it mean to be Christian?  Questions like these, plus the need to confront heresies entering the Church, led to the formulation of creeds.  This message is an introduction to creeds and, in particular, to the earliest one: The Apostles’ Creed.