Undivided Life
Whole person Whole community Whole world
Luke 10:27 • John 17:20-23 • Acts 2:42-47 • Gal 3:28
TSCF believes that reconciliation is at the heart of the good news. The gospel "undivides" life: it contests the fragmentation of daily living, the dissolution of community and the opposition of gender, ethnicity and denominational confession. In place of these it calls for redeemed and redeeming relationships, a possibility found only in the risen Christ. By grounding its mission in interdenominational student groups, in active partnership across cultural divides, TSCF sets out to embody the undivided life of the gospel.
“I was a confirmed eclectic when I started at university, and a serial monogamist on the question of church. The two were linked: no single denomination or church seemed willing to countenance the breadth of spirituality – all of it within orthodox Christian tradition – on which I wanted to draw. I wanted to be contemplative, charismatic, biblically thoughtful and socially responsible. My TSCF experience was immensely freeing: I had the opportunity to undivide my life within a biblically committed, interdenominational community. More than this, I made lifelong friendships with similarly complex others; they, like me, have since sought to undivide the world around them, wherever they go. They are among the most creative people I know."
- Matthew Scott