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We believe that we are only one part of Christ's Universal Church and share with
believers in other communions one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
With other Protestants we affirm the priority of salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as a final rule of Christian faith and practice.
We believe that the Old and New Testament reveal God's will for all persons concerning sin, salvation, and new life in Christ.
We affirm that Christ's death atoned for the sins of all people and that this grace is effective for the salvation of each person who accepts it.
We believe that Christians are justified and sanctified by faith alone.
We believe that Christ's sanctifying grace is received initially in the new birth (regeneration), when the Holy Spirit plants a new principle of spiritual life within, and that sanctifying grace increases as we live life through the Spirit. We affirm that entire sanctification is a gracious provision and possibility for all believers, in which the heart is cleansed of all sin and overflows with love for God and neighbor.
With other Protestants we affirm the priority of salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as a final rule of Christian faith and practice.
We believe that the Old and New Testament reveal God's will for all persons concerning sin, salvation, and new life in Christ.
We affirm that Christ's death atoned for the sins of all people and that this grace is effective for the salvation of each person who accepts it.
We believe that Christians are justified and sanctified by faith alone.
We believe that Christ's sanctifying grace is received initially in the new birth (regeneration), when the Holy Spirit plants a new principle of spiritual life within, and that sanctifying grace increases as we live life through the Spirit. We affirm that entire sanctification is a gracious provision and possibility for all believers, in which the heart is cleansed of all sin and overflows with love for God and neighbor.
Church HistoryThe Nazarene lineage runs through the English Reformation, the international spread of Methodism, and the Wesleyan-Holiness Movement of the United States.
The Church of the Nazarene emerged as a union of various Wesleyan-Holiness denominations and by 1915 embraced seven previously separate North American and British bodies.
Phineas F. Bresee shaped the church's form of governance.
Hiriam F. Reynolds nurtured its identify as a church committed to global missions. Other early leaders included C.W. Ruth, C.B. Jernigan, William Howard Hoople, Mary Lee Cagle, George Sharpe, J.O. McClurkan, Susan Fitkin, R.T. Williams, J.B. Chapman, and H. Orton Wiley.
The church has had an international dimension from its beginning. By intention, it is today an international church comprised of more than 380 districts worldwide, three-quarters of which are outside the United States and Canada. Nazarenes number nearly 1.4 million. Over half live outside the United States and Canada.