Here is a video that introduces our church, Ancient Paths Church of the Nazarene, using the Historical Statement found in the Manual of the Church of the Nazarene. I have included the text of the Statement, below the video.
If you find yourself in Georgetown, Indiana, join us for worship - 10:30 Sunday mornings at 2278 Canal Lane.
HISTORICAL STATEMENT
The Church of the Nazarene confesses itself to be a branch of Christ’s “one, holy, universal1, and apostolic” church, embracing as its own the history of God’s people recorded in the Old and New Testaments and God’s people through the ages, in all expressions of Christ’s church. Our denomination
receives the creeds of the first five Christian centuries as expressions of its own faith. We identify with the historic church in preaching the Word, administering the sacraments, maintaining a ministry of apostolic faith and practice, and inculcating the disciplines of Christlike living and service. Our
denomination heeds the Biblical call to holy living and entire devotion to God, which we proclaim through the theology of entire sanctification.
Our Christian heritage was mediated through the 16th-century English Reformation and 18th-century Wesleyan revival. . . .
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1 The traditional word is catholic, which means of the whole or universal. Recognizing that there are those, both inside and outside of the denomination for whom the traditional term is confusing, bringing to their mind only the Roman Catholic Church, we have opted for the the word universal, which seeks to more clearly express what the word catholic means.
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