UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH MANILA

VISION: To see equipped members fulfilling the Great Commission

MISSION: To make fully-committed followers of the Lord Jesus Christ by:

1. Winning and leading believers to a God-honouring worship;

2. Reaching out to students via establishing student Center;

3. Discipling, equipping, and strengthening members towards service and ministry;

4. Immersing them in a loving relationship with fellow believers;

5. Creating opportunities for members to respond to the needs of its community.

FOUNDATIONS FOR PURPOSES

1. WORSHIP

Main Concept: Loving God

Scripture: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.” Luke 10:27

2. MISSIONS

Main Concept: Sharing God’s love to all people

Scripture: “...Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” Mark 16:15

3. DISCIPLESHIP

Main Concept: Living like Jesus Christ

Scripture: “We are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ.” Ephesians 4:15

4. FELLOWSHIP

Main Concept: Loving God’s people

Scripture: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35

5. SERVICE

Main Concept: Loving all people

Scripture: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”                  Matthew 23:29

CORE VALUES

We dedicate ourselves to the following code of conduct:

1. GOD-LOVING.

UBC practices the God-first policy in all matters of personal life, business conduct, and ministries.

2. FAMILY CARE

UBC is dedicated to strengthening families and in making herself sensitive and attentive to the wholistic needs of community members.

3. LIFELONG LEARNING

UBC promotes the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of a learning environment which aims in persuading its members to work with disciplers, equippers, and church leaders that they may also train others.

4. TRUST IN THE YOUTH

UBC upholds and advances its confidence in the youth as future world-shapers placing the task of reaching students as our highest priority in the church and its missions program.

5. SUBMISSION

UBC believes that changes around us like peace, justice, and progress will happen when Jesus’ gift of salvation is being preached to all mankind. Thus, we commit ourselves to the planting of satellite churches as God’s agent of reconciling the world to Himself.

OUR STRATEGY:

To win people to have deep personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, disciple them into maturity and equip them to minister to local churches, here and abroad.

OUR STRATEGY of producing satellite churches is through establishing student Center in key cities with universities and colleges in the Philippines and in abroad.

Our current constitution and by-laws uphold the above statements with its own statement:

“We exist to glorify God the Father through God-honouring worship, intentional missions among students, Christ-like discipleship, strong and united fellowship of believers, and compassionate service.”

 

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Our Faith

1. Th e Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. All Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.

2. God
Is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe.

3. Jesus Christ
Is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. His death on the cross made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples before He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God. He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission.

4. The Holy Spirit
Is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ.

5. Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image and created male and female. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

6. Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

7. The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel. It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations.

8. Two Ordinances
Christian baptism Is the immersion of a believer in water and is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

The Lord's Supper
Is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

9. Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time, talents, and material possessions; and should recognize all these as entrusted to them to use for the glory of God and for helping others. According to the Scriptures, Christians should contribute of their means cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemer's cause on earth.

10. Last Things
God in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.