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UBC participates with the global Church through a traditional liturgical calendar, and also celebrates UBC’s distinct history.
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Acknowledging that they may be difficult, and maybe left unanswered, but there is grace and growth in the asking. We believe questions are an essential part of the faith journey, and we encourage those questions however they form. We believe “all truth is God’s truth,” we can encounter God in creation, art, culture, and the ordinary/everyday. The division between what is sacred and what is secular is a false one. We celebrate how God has uniquely crafted you through your journey. You will not be marginalized because of your past, your questions, your look, political/social/theological views. Being a UBC'er BelongingĪuthentic Self Expression within a loving communityĪt UBC we encourage you to be yourself. work, home, school, church, the grocery store, the pub, etc.), we seek to actively love those around us through word and deed, and to consistently seek out opportunities to live and be caught up in the life Christ embodied. In each situation we find ourselves in (i.e. We strive to be missional, to be the incarnate Christ immersed in the world, without becoming a product of it. LIVE MISSIONALLY:Īs people on an intentional journey toward Christ, we are to be active participants in bringing the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. We believe that whenever we create art to celebrate, praise, lament, or express emotion, we are participating in the nature and work of God. We recognize and celebrate that living life to the fullest for some in our community includes artistic expression. We also seek to imitate our creator through the act of creating. Rather than separating the spiritual life (sacred) from everyday living (secular), we desire to value art, beauty, creativity, and diversity-all of which emanates from and points to God and God’s creation. The first thing we know about God from scripture is that God is a creator and says of creation, "this is very good." At UBC we seek to be a people that recognizes the beauty of God’s creation, often in the ordinary, everyday affairs and relationships of our lives. Our goal is not to house a collection of super-Christians who fit within a puritanical mold of sterile morality, but to congregate and send out a community of passionate pilgrims who are on an intentional journey toward Christ. We recognize that this formation is a lifelong process that occurs through regular practices of Christian worship, nurturing a healthy and consistent life of prayer, living authentically within mutually submissive and loving relationships, and seeking ways to realize the dream of God in our world.
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FORM:Īt UBC we strive to be a community formed into the image of Christ, becoming the people God has called us to be and doing the things God has called us to do. UBC SEEKS TO FORM A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE INTO THE WAY OF CHRIST THAT EMBRACES BEAUTY AND LIVES MISSIONALLY. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate he suffered death and was buried. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father through him all things were made.