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Being
a member of the UCCF, the doctrinal basis of the LMCU is that of the UCCF
and contains the fundamental truths of Christianity, as revealed in Holy
Scripture, including:
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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