The Nicene Creed
The catechism cites the Nicene Creed beside many of its questions. If you have not read the creed, or have only heard it in worship, here is the full text as the Global Methodist Church prints it in its Book of Doctrines and Discipline (¶105.2).
The creed was written at the first ecumenical council of the church, which met at Nicaea in 325 AD, and was expanded and adopted in its present form at the council of Constantinople in 381 AD. It is the one statement of faith shared by the whole church, East and West, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant.
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became truly human.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.
We believe in one holy and apostolic church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The word catholic is an old Greek word that means "according to the whole." It does not refer to the Roman Catholic Church as a denomination; Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants all confess this line in the same words and the same sense. You will also see places, like in the Book of Doctrines and Discipline, where the creed says "universal" to get the right idea across in English.
The words in brackets, "and the Son," are not in the creed as the council wrote it. Churches in the West began adding them in Spain in the 500s to say plainly that the Spirit is sent by the Son as well as the Father, and by the 1000s the whole Western church, Rome included, said the creed this way. The churches of the East kept the original wording, and the two halves of Christendom have disagreed about it ever since.
The Global Methodist Church leaves the choice open: the creed may be said with or without those words, in worship and in teaching.