The Church of the Nazarene has three core values at its heart. These core values are:

We are a Christian People.

As members of the worldwide church, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and embracing the historic Trinitarian creedal statements of Christian faith. We value our Wesleyan-Holiness heritage and believe it to be a way of understanding 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, as well as loving our neighbors as ourselves. this produces 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 (Matthew 28:19-12; 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.