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Our Core Values
We Are
a Christian
People
As members of the Church Universal, we
join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in
embracing the historic Trinitarian creedal statements of Christian faith. We
value our Wesleyan–Holiness heritage and believe it to be a way of understanding
the faith that is true to Scripture, reason, tradition, and
experience.
Click the link
below to view Our Covenant Commitment!
http://www.swokdnaz.org/files/site_PDFs/My_Covenant_Commitment.pdf
We Are
a Holiness People
God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. We
believe that the Holy Spirit seeks to do in us a second work of grace, called by
various terms including "entire sanctification" and "baptism with the Holy
Spirit"—cleansing us from all sin; renewing us in the image of God: empowering
us to love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors
as ourselves; and producing in us the character of Christ. Holiness in the life
of believers is most clearly understood as Christlikeness.
We Are
a Missional People
We are a sent people, responding to the
call of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to go into all the world,
witnessing to the Lordship of Christ and participating with God in the building
of the Church and the extension of His kingdom (2 Corinthians 6:1). Our mission
(a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion,
(c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and (d)
prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher
education.
http://www.swokdnaz.org/files/site_PDFs/Missional_pg.pdf
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