There is a familiar greeting which I try to use at the beginning of each and every worship service.  It comes from Paul’s Second Letter to the Church at Corinth: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (II Cor.  13:14) Now, that may sound simple and even trite, but I would suggest that that sentence contains the essence of the Christian Faith.  It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we come to know the love of God, in the fellowship (or community) of the Holy Spirit: the Church.  As I began this series of sermons on the Apostles’ Creed, I said that I really wish that the Creed had started with Jesus Christ and worked its way to God, rather than the other way around.  For that is the way in which I came…