Beirut Nazarene Church is an Evangelical Wesleyan Holiness church that is highly involved with the community especially the marginalized and under-resourced.
We are a great commission church. As a global community of faith, we are commissioned to take the good news of life in Jesus Christ to people everywhere and to spread the message of scriptural holiness across lands.
We believe:
– In one God – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
– That human beings are born with fallen nature, and are, therefore, inclined in evil and that continually
– That the atonement through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race; and that whosoever repents and believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is justified and regenerated and saved from the dominion of sin
– That the Holy Spirit ears witness to the new birth, and also to the entire sanctification of believers
– That the Old and New Testament Scriptures, gives by plenary inspiration contain all truth necessary to faith and Christian living
– That the finally impenitent are hopelessly and eternally lost – That believers are to be sanctified wholly, subsequent to regeneration, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
– That our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judgment will take place
Our core values are the essence of our identity and support the vision of our denomination and help shape our culture.
– Christian People
As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in affirming the historic Trinitarian creeds and beliefs of the 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 united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love God offers to all people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. In being reconciled to God, we believe that we are also to be reconciled to one another, loving each other as we have been loved by God and forgiving each other as we have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.
Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church, which, as the Nicene Creed tells us, is one, holy, universal, and apostolic. In Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God the Father offers forgiveness of sin and reconciliation to all the world. Those who respond to God’s offer in faith become the people of God. Having been forgiven and reconciled in Christ, we forgive and are reconciled to one another. In this way, we are Christ’s Church and Body and reveal the unity of that Body. As the one Body of Christ, we have “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” We affirm the unity of Christ’s Church and strive in all things to preserve it (Ephesians 4:5, 3).
– Holiness People
God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us the 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.
Because we are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, we commit ourselves fully and completely to God, believing that we can be “sanctified wholly,” as a second crisis experience. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us in the image of God and produces in us the character of Christ.
We believe in God the Father, the Creator, who calls into being what does not exist. We once were not, but God called us into being, made us for himself, and fashioned us in His own image. We have been commissioned to bear the image of God: “I am the LORD . . . your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy” (Leviticus 11:44).
– 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 (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1). Our mission (a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, (c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and (d) prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.
Our vision is to see a big number of people coming to Jesus in a short time. Our mission is to make Christlike disciples by demonstrating God’s love to the needy (ministry), communicating the good news to the lost (evangelism), bringing the saved to the family (fellowship) and celebrating God’s presence (worship), perfecting the saints (discipleship) and sending the called (mission).
– Meaningful Worship
We may say with confidence that to worship God is to acknowledge Him as the Rock of our salvation, the great God, the great King above all gods, the creator of all things, and the Shepherd who cares for His people.
These are our sources for Theological Coherence: Scripture, Christian Tradition, Reason & Personal Experience
– Passionate Evangelism
It is our response to Jesus’ love and grace for humanity. The Church of the Nazarene started with passionate evangelism. It continues to be the heart of who we are.
– Intentional Discipleship
It is helping people develop obedient intimate relationships with Jesus. In these relationships, Christ’s Spirit transforms their character into Christlikeness— changing new believers’ values into kingdom values, and involving them in His mission of investing in others in their homes, churches, and world.
– Church Development
We believe that a church is a cluster of believers, not a building or property.
– Transformational Leadership
We seek to develop leaders through a model of Christlikeness. Jesus is our example.
– Purposeful Compassion
We do every act of service, generosity, or mercy in Jesus’ name, and we offer our efforts to reveal Jesus’ love.
While these descriptors do not take the place of our mission “to make Christlike disciples in the nations” or our core values of “Christian, holiness and missional,” they describe what we believe should characterize every Church of the Nazarene and in large part, should be reflected by Nazarenes everywhere.