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Gateway Church

📍140 Gateway Drive, Oskaloosa, IA ✝nazarene
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Tension detected

A stance that departs from the denomination

The congregation's own words appear to differ from what its denomination's confession binds. This is an AI reading of the church's public text and may be inaccurate — the quotes below show what it's based on.

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Church of the Nazarene denies. This congregation affirms.
"The Lord’s Supper is a means of grace in which Christ is present by the Spirit."
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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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about
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Beliefs back Get Connected About Us Beliefs Our Staff Can We Pray For You? Services Times & Locations Live Stream Channel Celebrate Recovery Give Now Plan a Visit More Get Connected About Us Can We Pray For You? Services Give Now Plan a Visit Beliefs Our Staff Times & Locations Live Stream Channel Celebrate Recovery Get Connected About Us Beliefs Our Staff Can We Pray For You? Services Times & Locations Live Stream Channel Celebrate Recovery Give Now Plan a Visit Beliefs What we believe about Jesus, the Bible, and the Church Our Beliefs The Triune God We believe in one eternally existent, infi
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