The Apostles’ Creed is one of the most significant compilations of Christian beliefs in the history of the church. However, Southern Baptists have avoided it throughout our lifetime, citing the Bible as their sole creed.
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We picked [reading] the Apostles’ Creed because it is concise, clear, and well known. When we detected that some members began to regard the creed with a sanctity that only belonged to scripture or as a point of ecclesiological pride, we occasionally replaced it with the Ligonier's Statement on Christology. We did this to demonstrate the vitality of new and serious corporate statements that reflected historical orthodoxy. We also did this to mitigate against ecclesiological and denominational pride (it’s a Presbyterian document being recited by Baptists!). Either statement serves the same purpose and emphasize the important things we believe both in the statements themselves and in the act of saying them.
Source: D. Jeffrey Mooney and Adrian Martinez - "How One Church Introduced Reading the Creeds", Center for Baptist Renewal blog post, 1 March 2019
http://www.centerforbaptistrenewal.com/blog/2019/3/1/how-one-church-introduced-reading-the-creeds
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