      Bringing Forth the Whole WesleyKenneth J. Collins grew up in an Irish-Catholic family. After college, he returned to his childhood home of Brooklyn, where he met a retired Free Methodist minister named Arthur Albrecht. Albrecht introduced the young Collins to John Wesley, suggesting Collins begin with J.K. Warrick on holinessJ.K. Warrick, general superintendent, shares his thoughts about holiness and his efforts to work with others, like Ron Benefiel, to help the denomination understand the different expressions of holiness and how holiness can unite and strengthen our fellowship. More than Just a Memory: Communion as a Means to Make Us HolyI cannot remember the first time I received the Lord’s Supper. In fact, I remember very few communion services from my childhood. And yet, I have distinct memories of the Lord’s Supper: a composite memory of every communion... The Call of HolinessSeveral years ago, while pastoring in southern Illinois, Mark Quanstrom began a Ph.D. program at nearby St. Louis University for one simple reason: he wanted to be a better and more effective pastor. “I never thought teaching was in my future,” says Field of Dreams: Chicago Heights reaches out to urban ChicagoA profile of Chicago Heights Church, a nearly 100-year old Nazarene congregation, which has re-invented itself by reaching out to urban and multicultural Chicago. Pastor Randy Dodd comments on the church’s work with sports teams and ministry to children. Postmodern Holiness?Many pastors and preachers are perplexed about “the postmodern.” Confused about all the theoretical meaning behind that word? Perhaps. But I’m not talking about the theory, rather the persons known as “postmodern.” We metaphorically stare at them as if they are a brand new species in a zoo or aliens from another planet.  ARTICLE: Bringing Forth the Whole Wesley  VIDEO: J.K. Warrick on holiness  ARTICLE: More than Just a Memory  ARTICLE: The Call of Holiness  VIDEO: Field of Dreams  ARTICLE: Postmodern Holiness? |
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It is a fair question. What IS so great about being a holiness preacher? Why are you one? Have you decided that the money is better for holiness preachers or discovered that holiness preachers are more highly regarded in the community? Undoubtedly not! Are you a holiness preacher simply because you were born into a holiness church? No, for you, the reasons are
When I was a kid I used to love to assemble models. Apparently, I wasn’t alone because K-Mart and Wal-Mart dedicated entire aisles to these plastic icons of automotive and military history. Excitement gripped me as I tore the plastic off the box. Soon, I was separating components from their plastic prison.
Sometimes on Sunday mornings, while sitting in the pew along with all the other nice people, I imagine what would happen if Phoebe Palmer was our preacher for the day. What would the great Methodist mystic, the mother of the 19th-century holiness movement, think about our definitions of mission and evangelism—that is, of appropriate, social witness in a pluralistic world?
The day after I was elected to the office of district superintendent (DS), the primary question in my heart was, “Lord, what have you done to me?” Gratefully, that question quickly gave way to a more useful question, “Lord, what do you want me to do?” It’s not as if I had no idea at all.
In the previous issue, I answered the question, “What is spiritual formation?” in as broad a context as possible—religious and non-religious, Christian and non-Christian. This article examines the Wesleyan-Holiness approach to Christian spiritual formation as expressed in the Church of the Nazarene.
On a Sunday not too long ago, I looked out over the congregation entrusted to my care and thought to myself, “How we manage to get along well with one another is, quite frankly, a miracle.” On that particular Sunday, I saw individuals with ancestry from 12 different nations. Some of the individuals in the sanctuary carried with them a formal education;
Our television and computer screens, our billboards and newspapers, our movie theatres and magazines incessantly offer us ways of seeing the world. A vision of reality. But it is distorted vision; a twisted worldview and a suicidal narrative, “the path that leads to destruction.”
It is impossible to discuss the history of the church engaging the needs of society without addressing John Wesley. Wesley was a man with a mission and a vision “to redeem the nation” and “to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land.” 1 
In October 1908, several groups that had formed from the 19th- and early 20th-century holiness revival coalesced into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. Its 1908 Manual states that the church of Jesus Christ “includes all spiritually regenerate persons, whose names are written in heaven [emphasis mine].” The most recent Manual (2009) states,
“Small is beautiful.” This familiar phrase was coined by E. F. Schumacher in a collection of essays subtitled “economics as if people mattered.” Today we need congregations that are organized for worship, evangelism and mission “as if people mattered.” People do matter; they matter to God!
Paul M. Bassett on the Nazarene Articles of Faith
Lenten Devotional Resource by Roger Hahn Which statement best expresses what you think about the Nazarene statement of mission to “make Christlike disciples in the nations"? |
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