Selah - February 2009 - We Are a Christian People

Welcome to our Selah section on our web site. I will be offering something a bit different to our readers and visitors. Over the next three months I will be sharing “The Mission of the Church of the Nazarene” where making Christ-like disciples is a priority. The Mission covers three areas that we call Core Values. They are “We are a Christian People,” “We are a Holiness People,” and “We are a Missional People.”

I hope you will join us on this journey through our Core Values. I believe it will help everyone understand who the Nazarenes are. Welcome aboard!
-Pastor Charlie

WE ARE A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE

Unity – We are a Christ-centered community of faith united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We are committed to the unity of the faith, reconciliation, and the universal (catholic) nature of the Church.

Grace – We believe that God loves all people and through Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit offers forgiveness of sins, restored relationship with God, and reconciliation with one another. “But because of His great love for us, God Who is rich in mercy made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved.” (Ephesians 2:5 NIV)

Scripture – We believe the Bible, the inspired Word of God, to be the primary witness to these divine truths. We believe in the full inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. We believe the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments inherently reveal the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our salvation.

Orthodoxy – We are committed to orthodoxy of Christian belief. We stand with Christians everywhere in affirming the historic creeds of the Christian faith, and we embrace our heritage in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.

SELAH: pause and think on this!

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