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Who We Are
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Our Vision
Today, anyone who repents and believes into Jesus Christ is saved by grace and through faith. By this, he receives eternal life to become a child of God and a member of the Body of Christ. The Church, the Body of Christ, is composed of all genuine believers in Christ and is universally one. Each member in Christ is called to build up the one Body of Christ.
The purpose of Christian Students at CSUN is to help Christian students in the following areas:
| pursue the Lord Jesus with fellow Christians through Bible studies, Fellowship (one-on-one and small groups), and club events |
| know the meaning of Christian life (God's complete salvation) |
| grow in the divine life and be built up with the members of the Body of Christ. |
Our Faith
The Christian faith is unique. It is composed of the beliefs concerning the Bible, God, Christ's person and work, salvation and the church.
Our faith is recorded in the Bible, the divinely inspired Word of God (2 Peter 1:21). Word by word it is the breath of God who is uniquely one, but triune—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—coexisting and coinhering equally from eternity to eternity (1 Timothy 2:5; Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14).
The Son of God, Jesus Christ, is the very God in eternity who became a man in time (John 1:1,14). He became incarnated through the virgin Mary to be a genuine man. He is both God and man, possessing both divinity and humanity. Jesus Christ lived a perfect, sinless, human life expressing God the Father (Hebrews 4:15; John 14:9).
He is our Savior (Luke 2:11) who died on the cross as the Lamb of God (John 1:29), shedding His blood to accomplish our redemption (1 Peter 1 :3). Then He rose from the dead for our regeneration (1 Peter 1:3). in resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45) to dispense Himself as life into us. Today He is our life (Colossians 3:4) and the One who lives in us (Galatians 2:20). Now, in ascension He is the Lord of all (Acts 2:36), the Head over all things (Ephesians 1:22), and the Head of the church (Colossians 1:18).
Jesus Christ will come a second time. We eagerly await His return as the Bridegroom to the church (Revelation 19:7), as a Judge to the world (Acts 10:42), and as the King of kings over all the nations to establish His eternal kingdom (Revelation 11:15, 19:16).
Our salvation is by God through faith (Ephesians 2:4-9). A sinner must repent to God (Acts 2:38) and believe in Jesus Christ (John 3:16) for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 10:43), for redemption (Romans 3:24), for justification (Acts 13:39), and for regeneration in order to have eternal life (John 3:6, 36), become a child of God (John 1:12), and a member of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27).
All the genuine believers in Jesus Christ compose the church, the Body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23). The church, as the Body of Christ is universally one (Ephesians 4:4) and locally expressed. Its expression is locally one—one city, one church (Revelation 1:11) and should not be divided (1 Corinthians 12:27).
It is based on this faith, as revealed in the Bible, that we are Christians, members of the Body of Christ.
Our History
Thirty years ago while the anti-war and antiestablishment student movements were growing, some of the students at CSUN were seeking for something more. The movements did not answer the deeper questions about life: where did man come from? where is he going? what is the meaning of human life? what is reality, or is there reality in the universe at all? Everything seemed so shallow and materialistic; was there anything deeper in life?
These students got together several times a week to discuss and consider these questions. They found the answer in the Bible, in a living Christ they could experience, and in meeting with other Christians.
In 1993 we began praying to increase the Matador community's awareness of God and the Bible. We formed a club called Christian Students at CSUN . The name simply describes who we are: free of religion, tradition, organization, and hierarchy, but based on the Bible. The name is intended to include all Christian Students at CSUN and all those seeking the truth and finding the answer in Jesus Christ. We renewed our goal to find students who sought after deeper things in life, and Christians, tired of traditional Christianity, who really wanted to know the Bible and Jesus Christ.