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ABOUT URC
The United Reformed Church plays a dynamic and
challenging part in the British Christian community,
despite being one of the smaller mainstream
denominations. It has brought together English
Presbyterians, English, Welsh and Scottish
Congregationalists, and members of the Churches of
Christ, through unions in 1972, 1981 and 2000.
Sixty-eight thousand people make up 1500 congregations,
with nearly 700 ministers, paid and unpaid.
The United Reformed Church combines its commitment to
the Reformed tradition with a passionate belief that all
God’s people should be one. It seeks to work with
Christians of all traditions, and rejoices in being part
of more than 400 Local Ecumenical Partnerships, with the
Methodist Church and others. It is also committed to
theological and cultural diversity. It has declared
itself a multi-cultural church, rejoicing in the gifts
of members from across the world and seeks to hold
together a wide variety of theological understandings;
the valuing of different insights helps the church
understand the wonder of God.
Worldwide, more than 70 million Christians are members
of the Reformed family of churches. They uphold the
historic Trinitarian creeds of the church universal and
find the supreme authority for their lives in the Word
of God in the Bible, discerned under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit. They order their lives through councils of
the church, where ministers and lay people together seek
the mind of Christ. |
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