What confession speaks of is precisely what Jesus and the apostles spoke of, the coherence of the world and its history in bringing to perfection the works of God in Christ’s resurrection. We are not invited to testify to our own struggles, thoughts, and relationships in place of that unique and irreplaceable content, but we can supply a distinctive point of view on it, won from the experience of living under the guidance of the Spirit in this context rather than that, surrounded by these people rather than those, confronted by these problems and questions and not others.
