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I grew up in this church and I've got family who are pretty high up in the Church's administrative hierarchy, but I don't actually know what makes it different from any other sect of American Protestantism.
Some of the specific beliefs listed on the wikipedia article just seem asinine and unimportant, but I'm not particularly religious. Only ever went because I had to as a kid.
What makes the Church of the Nazerene, or any American Protestant movement, worthy of being considered "independent" from all the others?
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>>2433303
Hey all protestant denominations are independent. The Nazarenes are especially strong at missionarying it seems to me. I grew up with a lot of them. I respect, too, their strong organization - it beats the random, independent protestant churches I grew up with (mostly variants of Baptist). It's nice to be part of something bigger. I hope the church is still doing well.
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Dinosaurs! Oh wait that just make it the same with other American protestant churches.
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If you want to leave Protestanism but not Christianity as a whole I would suggest going Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican.
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>>2433357
I don't want to leave or join anything. At this point I'd describe myself as an apathetic agnostic.
I just want to understand what makes the Church of the Nazarene special outside of its administrative structure.
I keep seeing references to a "Holiness Movement" which it's a derivative of, but I don't know what that is.
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