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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 the 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 including "entire
satisfaction" 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 Christ-likeness.
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 (2Corinthians 6:1).
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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.
In the early years of this new
millennium, it is appropriate for the Church of the Nazarene to
identify those distinctives that we joyfully embrace and celebrate.
Our most precious treasures - our mission, calling, beliefs and
highest values - we gladly offer as a gift to the generations to
come.
We pray that
our core values will continue to serve as a guiding light for those
who must make their way through the light and shadows of the decades
that lie ahead.
Please feel free to contact us:
by email:
joe@burbankfaith.com ;
by mail:
505 S.6th Street Burbank, CA 91501; or
by phone: (818) 848-5000
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