The Covenant of Christian Conduct is the behavioural section of the Manual and it is revised, always contentiously, at the quadrennial General Assembly. What remains binding includes total abstinence from alcoholic beverages and from tobacco, prohibition of gambling and lotteries, prohibition of membership in oath-bound secret societies, and instruction on entertainment. What has gone includes a great deal: earlier Manuals legislated against theatre attendance, dancing, jewellery, and specified modesty in dress. Each removal was argued as either fidelity to holiness or legalism, depending on the wing. The current live arguments are about human sexuality, about the status of divorce and remarriage, and about how far a globally distributed denomination can hold one code across 165 world areas with radically different social settings — a question the Nazarenes have taken more seriously than most, since the great majority of their members are no longer American.