Beliefs & Affiliation

OUR BELIEFS

We believe in one God-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe that the Old and New Tes­ta­ment Scrip­tures, given by ple­nary inspi­ra­tion, con­tain all truth nec­es­sary to faith and Chris­t­ian liv­ing.

We believe that man is born with a fallen nature, and is, there­fore, inclined to evil, and that con­tin­u­ally.

We believe that the finally impen­i­tent are hope­lessly and eter­nally lost.

We believe that the atone­ment through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race; and that whoso­ever repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is jus­ti­fied and regen­er­ated and saved from the domin­ion of sin.

We believe that believ­ers are to be sanc­ti­fied wholly, sub­se­quent to regen­er­a­tion, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe that the Holy Spirit bears wit­ness to the new birth, and also to the entire sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion of believ­ers.

We believe that our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judg­ment will take place.

APOSTLE’S CREED

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Cre­ator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was con­ceived of the Holy Spirit,
born of the Vir­gin Mary,
suf­fered under Pon­tius Pilate,
was cru­ci­fied, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell.

The third day He arose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the liv­ing and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic* church,
the com­mu­nion of saints,
the for­give­ness of sins,
the res­ur­rec­tion of the body,
and life ever­last­ing.

Amen.

*‘catholic’ mean­ing ‘uni­ver­sal’

OUR AFFILIATION

Emmanuel is part of the Church of the Nazarene, a fam­ily of 12,000 churches gath­er­ing in over 160 coun­tries.

With roots that reach back to the Angli­can and Methodist tra­di­tions, the very first Church of the Nazarene was started in Los Ange­les in 1895 as a mis­sion to the poor.

The name “Nazarene” refers to Jesus who grew up in the hum­ble city of Nazareth. Remem­ber­ing that Jesus was a Nazarene reminds us that God iden­ti­fies with the poor and cares deeply about the every­day needs of the com­mon per­son.

For more infor­ma­tion about the Inter­na­tional Church of the Nazarene please visit www.nazarene.org.