Crossroads United Church of Christ
What we believe
The United Church of Christ is a non-creedal church. It is the
responsibility of every member to work toward a coherent and informed
faith.
The United Church of Christ embraces a theological heritage that
affirms the Bible as the authoritative witness to the Word of God, the
creeds of the ecumenical councils, and the confessions of the
Reformation.
The UCC has roots in the "covenantal" tradition—meaning
there is no centralized authority or hierarchy that can impose any
doctrine or form of worship on its members. Christ alone is Head of the
church.
We seek a balance between freedom of conscience and
accountability to the apostolic faith. The UCC therefore receives the
historic creeds and confessions of our ancestors as testimonies, but not
tests of the faith.
What else do we believe?
You are the authority on your identity.
God loves us just the way we are.
Every person is a gift from God.
Non-Christian religions are fine.
White Christian nationalism is a sin.
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric
acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been,
is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in
unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
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