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What we believe

An old faith, honestly lived.

Cascadia stands within the Church of the Nazarene and the historic Christian faith. Our beliefs aren’t new. How we live them is shaped by the people of the Pacific Northwest.

Our foundation

We are a Church of the Nazarene.

Read the Articles of Faith

We haven’t written a new creed. Cascadia holds the Articles of Faith of the Church of the Nazarene, a global Wesleyan-Holiness denomination, and with the whole Church proclaims the lordship of Jesus Christ and affirms the historic Trinitarian creeds.

We share the denomination’s mission: to make Christlike disciples in the nations. That mission carries the historic essentials of evangelism, sanctification, discipleship and compassion, and its heart is holiness, which looks like Christlikeness.

Three core values

What every Nazarene church shares, and how Cascadia lives it.

Under each, the Cascadia core values that carry it out.

A Christian people

With the whole Church we proclaim the lordship of Jesus Christ and affirm the historic Trinitarian creeds. We value the Wesleyan-Holiness heritage as true to Scripture, reason, tradition and experience.

Invite real dialogue, even when it is hard

We welcome hard questions and open dialogue as we seek to offer biblically founded Christian education and discipleship.

Cultivate discipleship

Discipleship is at the core of everything we do. Worship and praise, fellowship, prayer, social interactions and learning from one another are all aspects of discipleship.

A holiness people

God, who is holy, calls us to a life of holiness. The Spirit renews believers in God’s image and enables them to love God and neighbor fully. Holiness is understood most clearly as Christlikeness.

Grow in grace

We seek to cultivate a growth environment where we offer grace to ourselves and to others as our faith, knowledge and life application continuously grow and deepen.

Encounter God’s grace through the sacraments

In baptism and communion we celebrate God’s grace through tangible signs of God’s love. These sacred practices draw us into the story of Jesus and shape our life together.

Embrace Sabbath and life-giving rhythms

God created us for rhythms of work and rest, worship and play, solitude and community. Our worth is not measured by our productivity.

A missional people

We are a sent people, empowered by the Spirit to witness to Christ. Our mission begins in worship, reaches the world through evangelism and compassion, and grows believers through discipleship.

Missional

We seek to see our community through God’s eyes, remembering that every person is made in the image of God, and we seek the peace and prosperity of the community in which we live.

Belonging

Loneliness is an epidemic. We seek to create an approachable and welcoming community for seekers, skeptics and sojourners of all ages.

The sacraments

Grace you can see and touch.

Baptism

Through baptism we celebrate new life in Christ and belonging to the body of Christ. As a church we commit to walking alongside those who are baptized, nurturing their faith and growing together in discipleship.

Communion

At the Table we remember Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, receive his grace, and give thanks for his self-giving love. We come with open hands, recognizing our need for God and one another.

We teach the meaning of both in approachable ways and welcome questions from people new to faith or from other church traditions.

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“I think it’s that it’s focused on the gospel… It’s the heart of God revealed through Scripture and in the person of Jesus.”

Pastor Tiffany

Articles of Faith

The beliefs we hold.

The Church of the Nazarene summarizes its beliefs in sixteen Articles of Faith. You can read each in full on nazarene.org.

  1. The Triune God
  2. Jesus Christ
  3. The Holy Spirit
  4. The Holy Scriptures
  5. Sin, Original and Personal
  6. Atonement
  7. Prevenient Grace
  8. Repentance
  1. Justification, Regeneration, and Adoption
  2. Christian Holiness and Entire Sanctification
  3. The Church
  4. Baptism
  5. The Lord’s Supper
  6. Divine Healing
  7. Second Coming of Christ
  8. Resurrection, Judgment, and Destiny
Read the Articles of Faith