Creeds have a number of advantages for the Church:

• They act as a short summary of Christian belief which people can easily learn.
• They can protect the Church from false teaching (ie teaching that does not match up to the statements of truth in the creeds).
• They can explain difficult beliefs from the Bible in a simpler way.
• They can help people to worship God as they recite parts of the creed and apply it to their lives.
• They help to unify the Church because they all agree on the same beliefs.

Creeds have a number of disadvantages for the Church:

• Creeds were written so long ago that the wording is old fashioned.
• They take complex Christian beliefs and oversimplify them.
• Some of the creeds were written to deal with false teaching in the Church hundreds of years ago, these creeds are no longer relevant today.