Our beliefs

As a Christian Union [CU] we are committed to the Evangelical basis of faith of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship [UCCF] outlined below. We stand for these truths and want to make them known. We believe them, strive to live by them and so want all our activities to be consistent with them. We do this by asking all speakers to assent to this brief statement when accepting an invitation to a CU event. All CU leaders are also asked to sign this statement. These truths cross over between denominations, and are by no means everything that the Bible teaches us.

The Godhead
There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

God's Sovereignty
God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement.

The Bible
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.

Human Guilt
Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's wrath and condemnation.

Jesus our Lord
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.

Jesus our Saviour
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.

Salvation
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
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 Work of the Holy Spirit
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 Church
The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong.

Jesus' Second Coming
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.