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ENGLISH SERVICE - 11:00am / TURKISH SERVICE 1:30pm
The Gospel
The Gospel
Union Church is a Protestant church made up of many nationalities and backgrounds that worships in the English language at the Dutch Chapel in Istanbul. We exist to glorify God by making disciples and multiplying Christ-centered communities among all nations, beginning in our city.
We are openly committed to upholding and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel is both the best and most urgent news anyone anywhere can hear and believe. It is the message of what God has done to save people, transform lives & communities, and grow churches around the world.
The gospel is the joyous declaration that God is redeeming the world through Christ and that he commands everyone everywhere to turn from sin and trust Jesus Christ for salvation. Each of us has sinned against God, breaking his law and rebelling against his rule, and the penalty for our sin is death and hell. But because of his love, God sent his Son, Jesus, to live, for his people’s sake, the perfect, obedient life God requires and to die on the cross in our place for our sin. On the third day, Christ rose bodily from the grave and now reigns in heaven, offering forgiveness, righteousness, resurrection, and eternal blessedness in God’s presence to everyone who repents of sin and trusts solely in him for salvation.
Statement of Faith
Statement of Faith
We believe in the One Holy God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – infinite in love, power and wisdom.
We believe God the Father creates, sustains that which He begins, and reveals Himself to us, holding us accountable, as individuals and nations, for that which he has created.
We believe God the Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. He was born of a virgin, lived and suffered in obedience to the Father, died for the sins of the world, and rose in triumph over death. Therefore, God has made Christ the Lord of all, Who will come again in glory to judge humanity and to establish His Kingdom.
We believe God the Spirit regenerates and indwells to empower, guide, comfort, sanctify, and unite us one with another.
We believe the Scriptures – the Old and New Testaments – are unique and divinely inspired. They are trustworthy in matters of faith and practice and are understood through prayerful study and by the illumination of the Holy Spirit.
We believe humanity was created in the image of God for fellowship with Him. This relationship was broken because of sin and is restored through faith in Jesus Christ.
We believe the Church consists of those reconciled to God through faith in Jesus Christ. The Church is to proclaim the gospel of Christ and to be His presence in the world.
Amen.
Historic Creeds
Historic Creeds
We hold to the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed
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