As a member of the Church of the Nazarene, we are a great commission church. We are commissioned to take the gospel across the nation.
We are a Christian People
We are united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love God offers to all people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. In being reconciled to God, we believe that we are also to be reconciled to one another, loving each other as we have been loved by God and forgiving each other as we have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.
We are a Holiness People
Because we are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, we commit ourselves fully and completely to God. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us in the image of God and produces in us the character of Christ.
We are a Missional People
We are a sent people, responding to the call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world, witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1). Our mission (a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, (c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and (d) prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.
What We Believe
in one God—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
that human beings are born with a fallen nature, and are, therefore, inclined to evil, and that continually.
that the atonement through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race; and that whosoever repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is justified and regenerated and saved from the dominion of sin.
that the Holy Spirit bears witness to the new birth, and also to the entire sanctification of believers.
that the Old and New Testament Scriptures, given by plenary inspiration, contain all truth necessary to faith and Christian living
that the finally impenitent are hopelessly and eternally lost.
that believers are to be sanctified wholly, subsequent to regeneration, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
that our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judgment will take place.