Our Mission

Living together in God’s amazing grace, we invite all people to know Christ, grow in Christ and make Christ known.

Our Values

Holy Discontent – Righting What’s Wrong
Responsiveness – Action, Not Apathy
Relationships – We Are Better Together
Leading Beyond Our Walls – Around the Corner, Around the World

Our Beliefs

These are the foundational Christian teachings we believe at Nazareth. This congregation accepts all the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments as a whole and in all their parts as the divinely inspired, revealed, and inerrant Word of God and submits to this as the only infallible authority in all matters of faith and life.

We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God: And yet there are not three gods, but one God. He is the creator of everything in heaven and earth, and He is sovereign over all.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, sent by God into the hearts of all those who believe in Him, to sanctify them and to rule, comfort, and quicken them, and to defend them against the devil and the power of sin.

We believe the Holy Bible is the divinely inspired, revealed, and inerrant Word of God, which is our infallible authority over all matters of faith and life. 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17 We believe that God’s Word is living and active, and is unfailingly powerful to accomplish God’s will both now and forever. God’s Word is unchanging, and it has the power to create, transform, and make new life. We believe that when we are faithful to proclaim God’s Holy Word, the Holy Spirit works through us to accomplish God’s will in the world today.

We believe the Word, that is, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary, did assume the human nature so that there are two natures, the divine and the human, inseparably enjoined in one Person, one Christ, true God and true man, truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, that He might reconcile the Father unto us, and be a sacrifice, not only for original sin, but also for all actual sins of men. He also descended into hell, and truly rose again the third day; afterward He ascended into heaven that He might sit on the right hand of the Father, and forever reign and have dominion over all creatures.

We believe that salvation comes by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. We believe that we cannot by our own reason or strength believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, but the Holy Spirit calls us by the Gospel. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment.

We believe that the ministry of evangelism (sharing and proclaiming the message of salvation only possible by grace through faith in Jesus Christ) and discipleship (helping followers of Christ grow up into maturity in Christ) is a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ. We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism.

We believe the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe that marriage between one man and one woman, for life, uniquely reflects Christ’s relationship with His Church. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, cohabitation, homosexual behavior, rejection of one’s biological sex or use of pornography) is sinful and offensive to God. We believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake their sin, seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity. Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture nor the doctrines of the ministry.