HISTORY
OF THE UCKG
The
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) HelpCentre was
formed in 1977, in Brazil.
Pastor Edir Macedo started by holding services under a small
park shelter in Rio de Janeiro. His passion was to reach out
to the needy, less privileged people who were often excluded
by established religions.
As Pastor
Macedo's services grew in popularity, he used cinemas and
local halls to accommodate growing congregations, attracting
people from the streets to the expanding movement. Today,
the church is established in more than 120 countries and has
a membership of around 20 million.
Our motto
is ‘Helping people to make a new beginning’. We
are therefore committed to guiding you to discover your potential,
to live a full and happy life, and to connect to God directly.
Walk into
any UCKG HelpCentre and you can expect a warm welcome by people
who genuinely care about you and who will be with you every
step of the way to your new life.
WHAT
WE BELIEVE
We believe in the Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments in their original writings as fully
inspired by God and accept them as the Supreme and Final Authority
for faith and life.
We believe
in one God, eternally existing in three persons - Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born by the Virgin Mary and is true God and true Man.
We believe
that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and
thereby incurred the penalty of death, physical and spiritual;
that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which causes
actual transgression involving personal guilt.
We believe
that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a substitution
sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all who believe
in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
We believe
in the body of resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension
into heaven and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
We believe
in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory.
We believe
that those who repent of their sins, receive the Lord Jesus
Christ by faith and hold fast to Him are born again by the
Holy Spirit and become children of God.
We believe
in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, empowering believers for
service, with accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy
Spirit and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
We believe
in the divinely ordained ministries of apostle, prophet, evangelist,
pastor, and teacher.
We believe
in the resurrection of the just and the unjust, the eternal
blessings of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of those
who have rejected salvation.
We believe
that the one true Church consists of all those who have been
redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit;
that the local church on earth should take its character from
this conception of the spiritual Church and therefore new
birth and personal confession of the Christ are essential
for church membership.
We believe
that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances: baptism
in water and the Lord¹s Supper, to be observed as acts
of obedience and as a continual witness to the facts of the
Christian faith; that baptism is the immersion of the believer
in water as a confession of the Lord Jesus in burial and resurrection
and that the Lord's Supper is the partaking of the body and
blood of our Saviour in remembrance of His sacrifice until
He comes.
We believe
that divine healing seen in the Old Testament and the New
is an integral part of the Gospel.
We believe
the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see God.
We believe
in sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace,
commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until
the end of one¹s life.
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