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University Xchange
“Engaging the church among collegians in producing workers for God’s glory.”
Who We Are
A Passion for God and His Glory
Man’s need is to be captivated by God’s supremacy; His superior goodness, truth, and beauty. Man was made for the worship of God and will forever be restless and self-destructive until living for whom he was designed.
The Preaching of the Gospel of Christ and God’s Sovereign Grace
Man’s need is obtained only by the gospel of His glory where the fullness of God is seen in the face of Christ. In the gospel of grace, God displays His justice and holiness as well as His mercy and love. In it, He makes payment for sin and therefore, by the power of the gospel, are sinners reconciled to God and is the created order restored. The gospel reveals God’s plan in redemptive history and is the interpretive lens for scripture and the human heart. God alone is to receive the glory for accomplishing the salvation of His children.
Promoting Dependence on the Holy Spirit and Christ-like Character
Man needs the intervention of the Holy Spirit to regenerate us t0 see the truth and beauty of Christ in the Gospel. This is because left to ourselves we are dead in sin; hard of heart toward, ignorant of, and alienated from God; darkened in our understanding and futile in our thinking. God’s Spirit gives us the gift of faith, teaches us Christ and empowers us to walk pleasing to Him. We are called to keep in step with the Spirit through a life of repentance, humility and faith, displaying the fruit of regeneration. The process of salvation the Spirit has inaugurated, presently perseveres, and continues to completion, enables His use of us for His work.
A Priority of the Church and Her Ministry
The church is God’s institution for propagating His Gospel to the ends of the earth. Christ established and promised to build His church. He promised that it would always endure, prevailing even against Hell. He conferred to it the very authority of heaven and declared it to be the temple and household of God and the expression of His very body, of which He is head. If we want to be with God, we need to be in His church, for that is where He dwells.
The Production of Leaders and Disciple-makers
God’s plan of propagating His Gospel and expanding his Kingdom is multiplication through life-on-life discipleship. He seeks not merely broad proclamation of His gospel or merely service to the impoverished and helpless. Instead, He primarily desires the raising up of mature workers and shepherds to go out into His harvest field. To this end, Christ concentrated His training to a few and the formation of a team. The same strategy is modeled by Paul and other leaders of the early church. Simply put, it is through the discipleship of the individual that we are to accomplish the mission of the church and progress in the enormity of the task to which we are called.
Perpetuate A Healthy Movement
The context from which God consistently raises workers is a community characteristic of the Kingdom eternal; a worshiping, unified, multi-ethnic team with a first generational, privileged mindset. Such an expression of His kingdom on Earth necessarily un-works the effects of the Fall on man and his relationship to his fellow man. Conflict is resolved biblically and the “one anothers” of Scripture are present. The Christian worldview is taught and pursued. The essential value and unique design of each individual is emphasized and celebrated just as each obeys their calling and role in Kingdom work.
What We Believe
Our Vision
We believe that man’s highest purpose is to glorify God as taught in the Scriptures and as summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith.
We believe that God is glorified when the church accomplishes the work He gave us to do.
This work primarily consist of the cultural mandate and the Great Commission
God has given His people instruction and direction to fulfill this work. However, throughout recorded history (Old Testament, New Testament, and church) and today, leaders and workers to complete this work have been scarce.
Therefore God continues to look for men. He has historically used young men to start great works for the advancement of His kingdom.
Today, in the Southeast and around the world, young men are vulnerable and available on the university campus.
Conclusion
It is therefore University Xchange’s vision to stimulate the church’s ministry to this strategic group by discipling men and women such that they also are compelled by God’s glory to kingdom work in the production of more workers. This vision is a tangible expression of Eastwood Presbyterian Church’s vision of “presenting every man mature in Christ”.
