Purpose

Purpose of CUF

To provide spiritual leadership to pastors and church leaders by offering Christ-centered fellowship to fulfil the vision of Churches United Fellowship - United Kingdom (CUF). To seek the Lord in prayer and fasting from time to time, to receive fresh insight and revelation from God for the wellbeing of CUF.
To create a communication network to disseminate information.
To offer Christ-centered, scripture-based, non-biased instruction, counselling, help, support, direction and correction to its members to promote Christian unity and maturity.
To bring all UK pastors under one umbrella and create a network to improve interpersonal relationships both inside and outside the church.
To promote Christian values, characters and disciplines to safeguard kingdom principles.
To organise conventions, conferences, seminars, crusades and special meetings for pastors and church leaders on a local, regional, national and global level.
To organise short and long-term training courses relating to Bible studies, biblical theology, Church leadership, Christian counselling and Church administration.
To engage in raising funds/donations to make financial provision for humanitarian needs (supporting the under-privileged communities in the poor/developing countries) and other spiritual activities in the body of Christ.

The objective of CUF is to advance the Christian faith for the benefit of the public in the UK and further afield as the trustees and members decide, in accordance with the Statement of Faith attached to this constitution, in particular but not limited only to the Tamil speaking community.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We believe in.....

(taken from the Evangelical Alliance website with their permission)

The one True God who lives eternally in three persons - The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God - fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
The incarnation of God's eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ - born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; His ascension to the Father, and His reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers - given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.
We affirm that marriage is an institution created by God in which one man and one woman enter into an exclusive relationship for life. Marriage is the only form of partnership approved by God for sexual relations and homoerotic sexual practice is incompatible with His will as revealed in Scripture. We do not accept that holding these theological and ethical views on biblical grounds is in itself homophobic.