Who is the Royersford Church of the Nazarene?

  • We as a church are called to take love and care for our neighbors around the corner, and around the world.

  • We are a tight knit and far reaching community within the Royersford/ Pottstown Area.

  • Our mission is to serve our community and to help each other follow in God’s example to love.

We are a Christian church, in the Protestant tradition, and we fully subscribe to the beliefs and guidelines of the Nazarene denomination.(Click for their Website!)

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 affirming the historic Trinitarian creeds and beliefs of the 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 united with all believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We believe that in divine love God offers to all people forgiveness of sins and restored relationship. In being reconciled to God, we believe that we are also to be reconciled to one another, loving each other as we have been loved by God and forgiving each other as we have been forgiven by God. We believe that our life together is to exemplify the character of Christ. We look to Scripture as the primary source of spiritual truth confirmed by reason, tradition, and experience.

Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church, which, as the Nicene Creed tells us, is one, holy, universal, and apostolic. In Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God the Father offers forgiveness of sin and reconciliation to all the world. Those who respond to God’s offer in faith become the people of God. Having been forgiven and reconciled in Christ, we forgive and are reconciled to one another. In this way, we are Christ’s Church and Body and reveal the unity of that Body. As the one Body of Christ, we have “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” We affirm the unity of Christ’s Church and strive in all things to preserve it.
(Ephesians 4:5, 3).

 

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.


Because we are called by Scripture and drawn by grace to worship God and to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves, we commit ourselves fully and completely to God, believing that we can be "sanctified wholly," as a second crisis experience. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts, cleanses, fills, and empowers us as the grace of God transforms us day by day into a people of love, spiritual discipline, ethical and moral purity, compassion, and justice. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that restores us in the image of God and produces in us the character of Christ.

We believe in God the Father, the Creator, who calls into being what does not exist. We once were not, but God called us into being, made us for himself, and fashioned us in His own image. We have been commissioned to bear the image of God: "I am the LORD . . . your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy" (Leviticus 11:44).

 

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 (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1).


Our mission begins in worship, ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.

For a more detailed version on specific topics, please reference the Church of the Nazarene Website.

Hot Topic Questions:

Listen, we don’t like awkward conversations, but we want to be transparent. Awkward conversations are important.

  • The Nazarene church currently does not believe that God calls humankind to follow their desires toward same sex attraction, or to turn away from the gender they were born to be.

    However, we recognize this is a complicated topic, and we as a community are undergoing serious discussion on these issues.

    We also recognize that this world (and often the church) are harmful to the LGBTQIA+ community. Gay feelings are a part of our world, gender dysphoria is real, and feeling left out is all too common in our culture. We do not wish to be a part of the problem. We wish to support and uplift each other in our desires to follow God how He has called us. We will not turn anyone away or discriminate due to their choices.

    We truly desire to follow Jesus’ example to love first and to love fiercely.

  • The Nazarene Church believes that life begins at conception and that life should be protected if at all possible. We recognize there are situations when the mother’s life is in danger, and abortion is necessary. We know that many have been affected by abortion and we wish to offer forgiveness and redemption towards those who made that choice.

    We recognize we live in a difficult world where unwanted pregnancy is common and terrifying. We wish to be a part of the solution to reduce abortion within our culture, before pregnancy and to assist the family for as long as is needed past the start of the pregnancy and as the child grows. We also support adoption, both open and closed.

    We love you and we want to help.

  • We wholeheartedly affirm women is all leadership roles inside and out of the church.

  • We do not believe that full immersion baptism is necessary for salvation. We do recommend that someone is baptized as an outward sign of an inward grace. It is a wonderful time to declare your faith and to celebrate with your family and friends!