{"id":685,"date":"2021-03-01T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/latest-news\/3745-what-does-the-urc-believe.html"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:23:02","slug":"what-does-the-urc-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"What does the URC believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/images\/News\/News_images\/what-do-we-believe_news_banner.jpg\" alt=\"what do we believe news banner\" width=\"300\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;float: right\" \/>The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Pope explains more here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"feed-readmore\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/latest-news\/3745-what-does-the-urc-believe.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here: Read More &#8230; &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urc-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"St Andrews URC\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.4\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington - The United Reformed Church in Rustington\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BlogPosting\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#blogposting\",\"name\":\"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington\",\"headline\":\"What does the URC believe?\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?author=2#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/urc.org.uk\\\/images\\\/News\\\/News_images\\\/what-do-we-believe_news_banner.jpg\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685\\\/#articleImage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"URC News\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?cat=3#listItem\",\"name\":\"URC News\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?cat=3#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"URC News\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?cat=3\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#listItem\",\"name\":\"What does the URC believe?\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"What does the URC believe?\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?cat=3#listItem\",\"name\":\"URC News\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"St Andrews URC\",\"description\":\"The United Reformed Church in Rustington\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?author=2#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?author=2\",\"name\":\"St Andrews URC\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/56b43d99ac9fc94c6abbf34178224a6e18cc98fd2f43506022acc272b25dbb15?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"St Andrews URC\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685\",\"name\":\"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington\",\"description\":\"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\\u2019s) Faith & Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?p=685#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?author=2#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/?author=2#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"St Andrews URC\",\"description\":\"The United Reformed Church in Rustington\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\\\/#organization\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO -->\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington","description":"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith & Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:","canonical_url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#blogposting","name":"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington","headline":"What does the URC believe?","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?author=2#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#organization"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/images\/News\/News_images\/what-do-we-believe_news_banner.jpg","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685\/#articleImage"},"datePublished":"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#webpage"},"articleSection":"URC News"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?cat=3#listItem","name":"URC News"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?cat=3#listItem","position":2,"name":"URC News","item":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?cat=3","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#listItem","name":"What does the URC believe?"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#listItem","position":3,"name":"What does the URC believe?","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?cat=3#listItem","name":"URC News"}}]},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#organization","name":"St Andrews URC","description":"The United Reformed Church in Rustington","url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?author=2#author","url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?author=2","name":"St Andrews URC","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/56b43d99ac9fc94c6abbf34178224a6e18cc98fd2f43506022acc272b25dbb15?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"St Andrews URC"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#webpage","url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685","name":"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington","description":"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith & Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:","inLanguage":"en-US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?author=2#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?author=2#author"},"datePublished":"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/","name":"St Andrews URC","description":"The United Reformed Church in Rustington","inLanguage":"en-US","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/#organization"}}]},"og:locale":"en_US","og:site_name":"St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington - The United Reformed Church in Rustington","og:type":"article","og:title":"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington","og:description":"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:","og:url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685","article:published_time":"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00","article:modified_time":"2021-03-01T12:23:02+00:00","twitter:card":"summary","twitter:title":"What does the URC believe? - St Andrews United Reformed Church, Rustington","twitter:description":"The Revd Dr Robert Pope, Convenor of the United Reformed Church (URC\u2019s) Faith &amp; Order Committee, is Editor of a new series which explain what the denomination believes. The series covers subjects including God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Baptism, Creation, Being Human, Holy Communion, Salvation, the Church and the Future. Dr Pope explains more here:"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"685","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[],"defaultGraph":"","defaultPostTypeGraph":""},"schema_type":null,"schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2021-03-01 16:09:35","updated":"2025-06-04 12:10:16","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null,"focus_keyword":null,"additional_keywords":null,"truseo_locale":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?cat=3\" title=\"URC News\">URC News<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tWhat does the URC believe?\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/"},{"label":"URC News","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?cat=3"},{"label":"What does the URC believe?","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=685"}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}