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Welcome to Godfrey Online!
Welcome to Godfrey Online!
Welcome to Godfrey Online!

Church of the Nazarene
1800 W. Delmar
Godfrey, Il 62035
618-467-0867
Articles of Faith
Article One: The Triune God

We believe in one eternally existent, infinite God, Sovereign of the universe; that He only is God, creative and administrative, holy in nature, attributes, and purpose; that He, as God, is Triune in essential being, revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1
Leviticus 19:2
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
Isaiah 5:16
Isaiah 6:1-7
Isaiah 40:18-31
Matthew 3:16-17
Matthew 28:19-20
John 14:6-27
I Corinthians 8:6
II Corinthians 13:14
Galatians 4:4-6
Ephesians 2:13-18
Article Two: Jesus Christ

We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead; that He was eternally one with the Father; that He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say the Godhead and manhood, are thus united in one Person very God and very man, the God-man.

We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that He truly arose from the dead and took again His body, together with all things appertaining to the perfection of man’s nature, wherewith He ascended into heaven and is there engaged in intercession for us.

Matthew 1:20-25
Matthew 16:15-16
Luke 1:26-35
John 1:1-18
Acts 2:22-36
Romans 8:3, 32-34
Galatians 4:4-5
Philippians 2:5-11
Colossians 1:12-22
I Timothy 6:14-16
Hebrews 1:1-5
Hebrews 7:22-28
Hebrews 9:24-28
I John 1:1-3
I John 4:2-3, 15
Article Three: The Holy Spirit

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, that He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, regenerating those who repent and believe, sanctifying believers, and guiding into all truth as it is in Jesus.

John 7:39
John 14:15-18, 26
John 16:7-15
Acts 2:33; 15:8-9
Romans 8:1-2
Galatians 3:1-14; 4:6
Ephesians 3:14-21
I Thessalonians 4:7-8
II Thessalonians 2:13
I Peter 1:2
I John 3:24
I John 4:13
Article Four: The Holy Scriptures

We believe in the plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, by which we understand the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, inerrantly revealing the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our salvation, so that whatever is not contained therein is not to be enjoined as an article of faith.

Luke 24:44-47
John 10:35
I Corinthians 15:3-4
II Timothy 3:15-17
I Peter 1:10-12
II Peter 1:20-21