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| What We Believe |
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MCC members come from a wide variety of faith background and, sometimes, from no faith background at all.
We embrace and celebrate racial, cultural, linguistic, sexual, gender and theological diversity.
MCC believers in the priesthood of all believers is and almost all of the Churches rights and sacraments are open to lay people as well as to clergy. Over half of our clergy are women more than any other denomination. |
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| Statement of Faith |
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This is the simple declaration of what UFMCC believes, as stated in our By-Laws, and accepted by our General Conference:
- Christianity is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and is the religion set forth in the scriptures. Jesus Christ is foretold in the Old Testament, presented in the New Testament, and proclaimed by the Christian Church in every age and in every land.
- Founded in the interest of offering a church home to all who confess and believe, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches moves in the mainstream of Christianity.
- Our faith is based upon the principles outlined in the historic creeds: Apostles and Nicene.
We believe:
- In one triune God, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, of one substance and of three persons: God - our Parent-Creator; Jesus Christ the only begotten son of God, God in flesh, human; and the Holy Spirit - God as our Sustainer.
- That the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, showing forth God to every person through the law and the prophets, and finally, completely and ultimately on earth in the being of Jesus Christ.
- That Jesus...the Christ...historically recorded as living some 2,000 years before this writing, is God incarnate, of human birth, fully God and fully human, and that by being one with God, Jesus has demonstrated once and forever that all people are likewise Children of God, being spiritually made in God's image.
- That the Holy Spirit is God making known God's love and interest to all people. The Holy Spirit is God, available to and working through all who are willing to place their welfare in God's keeping.
- Every person is justified by grace to God through faith in Jesus Christ.
- We are saved from loneliness, despair and degradation through God's gift of grace, as was declared by our Savior. Such grace is not earned, but is a pure gift from a God of pure love. We further commend the community of the faithful to a life of prayer; to seek genuine forgiveness for unkind, thoughtless and unloving acts; and to a committed life of Christian service.
- The Church serves to bring all people to God through Christ. To this end, it shall arrange for regular services of worship, prayer, interpretation of the Scriptures, and edification through the teaching and preaching of the Word.
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| Core Values |
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We believe that:
- God loves every person without condition and treats every person with equal value and dignity;
- God has created every person to be a unique individual with the potential to have a loving relationship with God and with other people;
- The God given differences in people should be valued, celebrated and enjoyed;
- Every person has a basic right to worship and is on a unique spiritual journey towards God;
- Every person has special gifts, talents and skills which are given by God and are to be used to serve God and to serve others;
- All these values lie at the heart of Christ’s Gospel message which is for all people;
- God wants us to make real the Gospel message in our lives and in the life of the world.
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| Mission Statement |
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Metropolitan Community Church Edinburgh is a Christian Church founded within and reaching beyond the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities, which seeks to make the Christian Gospel real through:
- Providing a safe environment for celebrative worship, spiritual growth and mutual support;
- Reaching out especially, but not exclusively, to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities with the central message of God’s love for all people;
- Positive social action, particularly in seeking to end the oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people within mainstream churches and wider society.
So that all may discover and grow in God's liberating love.
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