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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Church of the Nazarene

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Church of the Nazarene Discussion

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
Pilot Point, Texas, 13 October 1908. Holiness bodies from the west, the east and the south — groups that had every reason to distrust each other on questions of church order — voted to become one denomination in a small north Texas town. The Nazarenes date themselves from that day rather than from Bresee's founding in 1895. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

The Bible

The Manual of the Church of the Nazarene

The Sixteen Articles of Faith

John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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