Denominational Connection

Basic Information

LifeBridge Church is part of the Church of the Nazarene, a Christian denomination that began in 1907-08. The Church of the Nazarene has around 1.4 millions members worldwide, with about half in the United States. Visit the official denominational website for more complete information.

Basic Nazarene 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.

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).

Basic Statistics

1.4 Million Members Worldwide, with around half in the United States
12,977 Local Churches
412 differenct districts – LifeBridge is part of the Kentucky District
742 Missionaries
Nazarenes support 11 liberal arts institutions in Africa, Canada, Korea, and the United States
2 graduate seminaries and 41 undergraduate Bible/theological colleges are also supported worldwide
The church operates 2 hospitals, 63 medical clinics, 2 nurses training colleges, 1 junior college, and serves 69,100 children, outside the United States and Canada
Nazarenes also engage in starting new churches and congregations by prayer support, financial giving, and facilitating volunteers and contracted missionaries – LifeBridge is a new start initiated by the Kentucky District of the Church of the Nazarene.

Visit the denominational headquarters website

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