The church of the nazarene manual

Manual of the Church of the Nazarene, Published under the authority of the General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene. The Board of General Superintendents declared 1 December as the effective date for the Manual of the Church of the Nazarene. A PDF red underlined version is available, which identifies the new language in the Manual based on resolutions that were adopted by the General Assembly.

Skip to main content. An online version of the Manual is available by clicking on the links below A PDF red underlined version is available, which identifies the new language in the Manual based on resolutions that were adopted by the General Assembly. To go to the online version, click here. We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead; that He was eternally one with the Father; that He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say the Godhead and manhood, are thus united in one Person very God and very man, the God-man.

Matthew —25; —16; Luke —35; John —18; Acts —36; Romans , 32—34; Galatians —5; Philippians —11; Colossians —22; 1 Timothy —16; Hebrews —5; —28; —28; 1 John —3; —3, We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, that He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, regenerating those who repent and believe, sanctifying believers, and guiding into all truth as it is in Jesus.

John ; —18, 26; —15; Acts ; —9; Romans —27; Galatians —14; ; Ephesians —21; 1 Thessalonians —8; 2 Thessalonians ; 1 Peter ; 1 John ; We believe in the plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, by which we understand the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, inerrantly revealing the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our salvation, so that whatever is not contained therein is not to be enjoined as an article of faith.

Luke —47; John ; 1 Corinthians —4; 2 Timothy —17; 1 Peter —12; 2 Peter — We believe that sin came into the world through the disobedience of our first parents, and death by sin. We believe that sin is of two kinds: original sin or depravity, and actual or personal sin.

We believe that original sin, or depravity, is that corruption of the nature of all the offspring of Adam by reason of which everyone is very far gone from original righteousness or the pure state of our first parents at the time of their creation, is averse to God, is without spiritual life, and inclined to evil, and that continually.

We further believe that original sin continues to exist with the new life of the regenerate, until the heart is fully cleansed by the baptism with the Holy Spirit. We believe that original sin differs from actual sin in that it constitutes an inherited propensity to actual sin for which no one is accountable until its divinely provided remedy is neglected or rejected.