About Us

As a Christian Union, we are part of a nationwide movement called Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) which unites most of the Christian Unions at universities and colleges around the country. The main purpose of being a Christian Union is to make the most of the unique opportunity we have to reach out to our campus with the gospel.

The CU vision is to make disciples of Christ in the student world who live and speak for Jesus. We are united by our common Christian beliefs, as stated in the Doctrinal Basis, but we recognise that there is still a wide spectrum of beliefs on issues not quite as central to the message of Jesus, as we are inter-denominational. This means that we don't endorse any one denomination's set of beliefs, but value the diversity that the different backgrounds of our members bring to the life of CU.

The Doctrinal Basis is a short statement explaining the beliefs that we have as a Christian Union. The Doctrinal Basis is the that of Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF), an organisation to which we, and hundreds of similar Christian Unions across the country, are affiliated.

The basis of the Fellowship shall be what we consider to be the fundamental truths of Christianity, as revealed in Scripture, including:

a) There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

b) God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement.

c) 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.

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

e) 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.

f) 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.

g) 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.

h) 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.

i) 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.

j) The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong.

k) 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.