What is a Nazarene?

You may be asking, “What’s a Nazarene?” and “What kind of church are they?”

Here are 3 values that describe Nazarene churches around the world:

We Are a Christian People
As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in embracing the historic Trinitarian creedal statements of Christian faith. We value our Wesleyan-Holiness heritage and believe it to be a way of understanding the faith that is true to Scripture, reason, tradition, and experience.

We Are a Holiness People
God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us a second work of grace, called by various terms including “entire sanctification” and “baptism with the Holy Spirit”-cleansing us from all sin, renewing us in the image of God, empowering us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, and producing in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life of believers is most clearly understood as Christlikeness.

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

For more information about our denomination and its presence around the world click here.

We Will Statements

These “We Will” statements are connected to our core values and give us direction as a church in our community.

Many things are important in the life of the church and it is easy to get busy doing lots of things, some important and some just being busy. At the end of the year you can look back and wonder ‘Did we make an eternal difference?’. 

Our We Will Core Values remind us of the essential things we want to be doing and be about in the life of the church. Click the Logo to learn more about FAITH, CONNECT, ENGAGE and DISCIPLE and why those words have deep meaning here at Cross Pointe.