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.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Church of the Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene

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Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum Part of Belief →
The shared center — held across the tradition
Entire sanctification — God deals with the disposition, not only the record. The tenth Article of Faith teaches a second work of grace, after conversion, in which the heart is cleansed from original sin and filled with love. It is what the whole denomination exists to keep in circulation, and it is Wesley's doctrine, not a nineteenth-century invention. Go deeper — context →
Anyone can be saved, and anyone can walk away. Arminian to the bone: prevenient grace reaches everyone, the will is genuinely free, no one is predestined, and a believer can fall. The Nazarenes came out of the Methodist stream and have never had the slightest interest in the Calvinist alternative. Go deeper — context →

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

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