Sun City Church of the Nazarene

📍14636 North Del Webb Boulevard, Sun City, AZ ✝church_of_the_nazarene

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

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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

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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beliefs

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about

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