Bel Air Church of the Nazarene

📍2430 Conowingo Road, Bel Air, MD ✝nazarene

AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Inherited from denomination

What Church of the Nazarene teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Affirms

Infant BaptismSTRONG
Westminster XXVIII; Book of Concord SC IV; Council of Trent Session VII; Wesleyan Articles Art. XVII
Marriage as one man and one womanSTRONG
Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6; historic universal Christian teaching.
Permissibility of divorce and remarriagestandard
Matthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.
Women in pastoral / ordained officestandard
Various denominational actions (TEC 1976, ELCA 1970s, PC(USA) 1956, AG 1935, CofE 1994 priests / 2014 bishops, etc.)

Denies

Apostolic Successionstandard
Congregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
Assumption of Marystandard
Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsSTRONG
Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
Immaculate ConceptionSTRONG
Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
Perpetual Virginity of Marystandard
Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
Real Presencestandard
Memorialist / Zwinglian view; typical Baptist and Free Church position
TransubstantiationSTRONG
Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.

Wrestles with

Believer's Baptismstandard
Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
Pacifism vs. just-warweak
Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.

In their own words

Statements

statement_of_faith

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about_us

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about

Who We Are - BEL AIR CHURCH Who We Are Our Story Our Beliefs Our Staff Annual Report 2025 Capital Campaign Ministry Ministerio Hispano Lent 2026 Faith Promise Kids Youth Groups Serving Others > Morungaba, Brazil HCDC DAYCARE Giving Bulletin CALENDAR Contact Us WHO WE ARE OUR STORY OUR BELIEFS OUR STAFF Bel Air Church 2430 Conowingo Road Bel Air, MD 21015 (410) 838-8290 © 2022 by Bel Air Church Who We Are Our Story Our Beliefs Our Staff Annual Report 2025 Capital Campaign Ministry Ministerio Hispano Lent 2026 Faith Promise Kids Youth Groups Serving Others > Morungaba, Brazil HCDC DAYCARE G

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beliefs

Our Beliefs - BEL AIR CHURCH Who We Are Our Story Our Beliefs Our Staff Annual Report 2025 Capital Campaign Ministry Ministerio Hispano Lent 2026 Faith Promise Kids Youth Groups Serving Others > Morungaba, Brazil HCDC DAYCARE Giving Bulletin CALENDAR Contact Us OUR BELIEFS Our mission to Love Jesus, and Love Like Jesus comes from Mark 12:29-31. “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ T

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