Our Faith and Beliefs

Spring Hill Calvary Church of the Nazarene (CCNaz) is a Protestant Christian Church and a part of the Church of the Nazarene following the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. Organized in 1908. The Nazarene Church is now home to over 2 million members worshiping all over the world. Please visit the General Church of the Nazarene website for a full description of our Articles of Faith

WE ARE A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE 

We join with all true believers to proclaim the Lordship of Jesus Christ and to embrace the 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 Christ-likeness.

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 (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.

We Believe…

  • in one God - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

  • that the Old and New Testament Scriptures are inspired of God & contain all truth necessary to faith and Christian living

  • that man is born with a fallen nature and is therefore inclined to do evil

  • that those who fail to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior are hopelessly and eternally lost

  • that the atonement through Jesus Christ is for the whole human race and that whoever repents & believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is justified & regenerated and saved from the dominion of sin

  • that believers are to be sanctified wholly subsequent to salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ

  • that the Holy Spirit bears witness to the new birth and also to the entire sanctification of believers

  • that our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judgement will take place