About Dundalk Church of the Nazarene
Thank you for taking the time to find out more about Dundalk Church of the Nazarene and our community. Dundalk Church of the Nazarene was established in Dundalk, MD in 1959. We hope that after you look through our website and worship with us, you will consider becoming a more active part of our growing community of faith.
Lead by Pastor Matt Moser, Dundalk Church of the Nazarene offers many ministries for people of all ages and walks of life who are looking to strengthen their relationship with Christ.
Mission Statement
Dundalk Church of the Nazarene exists:
To become a refuge for the community of Dundalk where people can experience life together , grow in their journey with God, celebrate life in Christ, and bring others into the mission to which Christ has called us.
We Are a Christian People
As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in embracing the historic Trinitarian creedal statements of Christian faith. We value our Wesleyan–Holiness heritage and believe it to be a way of understanding the faith that is true to Scripture, reason, tradition, and experience.
We Are a Holiness People
God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us a second work of grace, called by various terms including "entire sanctification" and "baptism with the Holy Spirit" — cleansing us from all sin; renewing us in the image of God: empowering us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves; and producing in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life of believers is most clearly understood as Christlikeness.
We Are a Missional People
We are a sent people, responding to the call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world, witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (2 Corinthians 6:1). Our mission begins in worship, ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.
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If you would be interested in more information regarding the church of the nazarene
please click here. The Nazarene lineage runs through the English Reformation, the international spread of Methodism, and the Wesleyan-holiness movement in America. The Church of the Nazarene emerged as a union of various Wesleyan-holiness denominations and by 1915 embraced seven previously separate North American and British bodies.
Phineas F. Bresee shaped the church's form of governance. Hiram F. Reynolds nurtured its identity as a church committed to global missions. Other early leaders included C. W. Ruth, C. B. Jernigan, William Howard Hoople, Mary Lee Cagle, George Sharpe, J. O. McClurkan, Susan Fitkin, R. T. Williams, J. B. Chapman, and H. Orton Wiley.
The Church had an international dimension from its beginning. Today it is, by intention, an international church with over 380 districts world-wide, three-quarters of which are outside North America. There are nearly 1.4 million Nazarenes. Over half live outside the United States and Canada.
What We Believe and Teach• We believe that we are only one part of Christ's universal Church and share with believers in other communions one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
• With other Protestants we affirm the priority of salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the final rule of Christian faith and practice.
• We believe that the Old and New Testaments reveal God's will for all persons concerning sin, salvation, and new life in Christ.
• We affirm that Christ's death atoned for the sins of all people, and that this grace is effective for the salvation of each person who accepts it.
• We believe that Christians are justified and sanctified by faith alone.
• We believe that Christ's sanctifying grace is received initially in the New Birth (regeneration) when the Holy Spirit plants a new principle of spiritual life within, and that sanctifying grace increases as we live life through the Spirit. We affirm that entire sanctification is a gracious provision and possibility for all believers, in which the heart is cleansed of all sin and overflows with love for God and neighbor.
Our MissionThe Church of the Nazarene is a “Great Commission” church. As such our members seek to witness faithfully and attractively to all people, so that the Christ life within would draw others to the love, worship, and service of God. We are called, especially, to preach the Gospel to the poor. The basic vehicles through which we carry out our mission are these: corporate worship, evangelism, compassionate ministry, Christian nurture, and education. Because the whole people of God constitute "the Church," and because each Christian is called to ministry by virtue of his or her baptism, every believer in the Church of the Nazarene has a role in carrying out the mission to which we are called as a corporate body.
