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Dundee University Christian Union is a Mission Team, which exists as a united Bible believing Christian community that strives to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ as his true disciples, wanting and allowing His Holy Spirit to transform every aspect of our lives so that they are pleasing to Him.
Our purpose is to glorify God by knowing Christ intimately, knowing each other deeply through encouraging, correcting and praying for one another as well as loving other students by making Christ known to them with boldness and passion. As a team and a society we pursue to depend on God’s power and to be better equipped in sharing the good news of Jesus with every student on campus.
Dundee University Christian Union is part of a national movement of Christian Unions lead by UCCF.
All Christian Unions which are part of UCCF share one Doctrinal Basis or statement of beliefs which represents the central truths of the gospel. This is the basis of our unity, the foundation of our ministry and the content of our message. We are unashamedly confessional and value gospel clarity and gospel unity. Why do we have a doctrinal basis?
Our Doctrinal Basis is:
The basis of the Fellowship shall be the fundamental truths of Christianity, as revealed in Holy Scripture, including:
- There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement.
- The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired and infallible Word of God. It is the supreme authority in all matters of belief and behaviour.
- Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
- The Lord Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, is fully God; he was born of a virgin; his humanity is real and sinless; he died on the cross, was raised bodily from death and is now reigning over heaven and earth.
- Sinful human beings are redeemed from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial death once and for all time of their representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between them and God.
- Those who believe in Christ are pardoned all their sins and accepted in God's sight only because of the righteousness of Christ credited to them; this justification is God's act of undeserved mercy, received solely by trust in him and not by their own efforts.
- The Holy Spirit alone makes the work of Christ effective to individual sinners, enabling them to turn to God from their sin and to trust in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Spirit lives in all those he has regenerated. He makes them increasingly Christlike in character and behaviour and gives them power for their witness in the world.
- The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong.
- The Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, to judge everyone, to execute God's just condemnation on those who have not repented and to receive the redeemed to eternal glory.
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