Rites & Ritual

The Church of the Nazarene

Denomination·Founded 1908 CE·est. 2,724,006 members in 30,747 congregations across 165 world areas, from the denomination's own reporting. Growth is almost entirely outside the United States and Canada — the Africa and Asia-Pacific regions have expanded while the American membership has been flat or declining for two decades.

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The altar call, and the rail people actually kneel at. Nazarene churches are built with a rail across the front and it is used weekly, for conversion and for sanctification both. Seekers kneel and someone kneels with them; the meeting waits. It is the tradition's central act and its most exportable one. When Weekly — the altar call at Sunday services, and at revival and camp meetings through the yearWho Anyone present Go deeper — context →