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Gaithersburg Church of the Nazarene

📍8921 Warfield Road, Gaithersburg, MD ✝wesleyan
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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
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

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<!DOCTYPE html> GCN - What We Believe Home About Mission and Vision What We Believe Leadership Jobs Contact Connect Announcements GCN Kids GCN Youth Join The Mission Global Missions Media Life Groups Give I'm New Blog What We Believe We join with followers of Christ around the world in confessing our belief, summarized in the Apostles' Creed: We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended i
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mission
GCN - Mission and Vision Home About Mission and Vision What We Believe Leadership Jobs Contact Connect Announcements GCN Kids GCN Youth Join The Mission Global Missions Media Life Groups Give I'm New Blog Mission & Vision To live out the Way of Jesus in our neighborhood The Mission The mission of GCN is to practice and proclaim the Way of Jesus together in our neighborhood. The church is not merely a building or a worship experience, but a people on a mission. We believe that following Jesus requires us to uniquely order our lives . Our goal is to love Jesus, to become more like Jesus as the H
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mission
GCN - What We Believe Home About Mission and Vision What We Believe Leadership Jobs Contact Connect Announcements GCN Kids GCN Youth Join The Mission Global Missions Media Life Groups Give I'm New Blog What We Believe We join with followers of Christ around the world in confessing our belief, summarized in the Apostles' Creed: We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hades; the thir
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