Creeds and worship

How do creeds relate to worship?

Do you want a theological or a liturgical answer?

Theologically, what we believe shapes how we worship, and I think how we worship shapes what we believe.

I wonder how well we are served by the Nicene-Constantinople creed, born in controversy, established to delineate a particular orthodoxy in a specific location. Our arguments are less over whether Jesus descended to the dead, and more about how Jesus can be like you if Jesus really is like me.

Liturgically, saying or singing creeds together has a lot going for it. There can be a discussion about whether a creed is a framework, like jazz, or a prison. Some worship traditions seem to manage without formal statements of what they believe.

And which creeds are we talking about anyway? The ones that 'all' Christians everywhere believe? Or the local, recent new ones that try to address the issues?

I wonder if the question itself is loaded? Should creeds relate to worship? It all smacks of an intellectual, rational, logical approach to worship which leaves out the poetry, the non-linear, the creative dancing to the song of the Spirit, the spontaneous, no, not the contrived, planned spontaneity of a pentecostal singfest, but, well, for example, in worship on Sunday, a baby provided a counterpoint to Chris' communion liturgy. Delightful.