What is the United Church of Christ?

We are the church that believes that God is Still Speaking. To borrow an explanation from the Still Speaking News, “God is still speaking” suggests openness and flexibility, characteristics of the UCC’s wide welcome and hospitality.” We are a church committed to Jesus Christ, which stresses attitudes of respect and acceptance; attitudes that run deeper than agreement or disagreement around any one social or political issue.

 

The preamble to our constitution states that The United Church of Christ “acknowledges as its sole head, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior. It acknowledges as kindred in Christ all who share in this confession. It looks to the Word of God in the Scriptures, and to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, to prosper its creative and redemptive work in the world. It claims as its own the faith of the historic Church expressed in the ancient creeds and reclaimed in the basic insights of the Protestant Reformers. It affirms the responsibility of the Church in each generation to make this faith its own in reality of worship, in honesty of thought and expression, and in purity of heart before God. In accordance with the teaching of our Lord and the practice prevailing among evangelical Christians, it recognizes two sacraments: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion.”

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