To describe the Missionary Church in one word, we are COMMITTED.

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The 2015 Manual of the Bible Missionary Church, a Methodist denomination in the conservative holiness movement, states: 'We wholeheartedly endorse the use of the Authorized Version (King James Version) of the Bible as the final authority in our English-speaking churches and schools. We also go on record as being opposed to the Revised Standard. According to Plaintiffs Pedro and Norma Anaya, (the 'Anaya Plaintiffs'), the congregation was affiliated with the Bible Missionary Church, Inc. (the 'Bible Missionary Church') from sometime after December 2002 until July 16, 2004, when the congregation withdrew its membership from the Bible Missionary Church.

We are committed to Jesus Christ, the Bible, and the Great Commission.

All of us know groups who are no longer as committed to the authority of Jesus, but the Missionary Church recognizes Jesus Christ as the ultimate authority.

In a day when the Word of God is often watered down or abandoned altogether, we remain fully committed to the inerrancy of Scripture and the authority of the Word of God.

We are committed to the Great Commission: multiplying disciples who multiply disciples who multiply disciples. That is the command that Jesus gave us, and we will not be distracted by buildings, programs, or anything else.

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Organizationally, we are a denomination, but we really see ourselves as a family of churches. As a family we realize that we have a unique identity. Others may share in one or more of our traits, but we believe the combination of the following five traits expresses this unique identity of the Missionary Church.

We identify, develop, and release leaders.
We do not limit God in who he calls to leadership.

This means we focus more on the mission than the institution. We share best practices with like-minded organizations and partner with them.
We also encourage and support your Kingdom endeavors.

We encourage, facilitate and resource churches, rather than direct them. Our goal is to inspire and partner with one another to increase ministry effectiveness.

We are fiercely faithful to core biblical doctrines, to ensure that we stay theologically sound. We are not dogmatically exclusive.

We are unique in the fact that we allow local churches freedom to minister effectively in their contexts. This is because we are a permission-giving culture, not a restricting one.

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NINETEEN REASONS WHY I AM LEAVING

THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

By Glenn Griffith

There have been so many inquiries and so many rumors as to why I am leaving the Church of the Nazarene that I have felt moved of the Lord to explain the cause and give some personal reasons why.

In the first place, I would like to say that it was not an over-night thought, nor just snap judgment. I have prayed and meditated over this vital and tremendous decision for at least two years. To leave a church whose doctrines on vital salvation of the soul were and are sound and circumscribes the need of a totally depraved soul, was not an easy decision to make, and it took time and prayer and heart burden to bring me to the point of leaving.

But as I preached and observed in my thirty years of labors, I became convinced in my way of thinking, that I could not go along with the program of the church as it is carried on now. Many, no doubt, in leadership feel differently about the conditions and would say that the church is in the greatest revivals and in the best condition spiritually it has ever been in. But I am giving my reasons why I would leave a full slate in the field of evangelism and leave the immediate fellowship of a great crowd of friends and brethren who may not understand my move.

I do not set myself up as a “more holy than thou” person, nor do I leave with rancor in my soul, but when I voluntarily sent my credentials in to the Board of General Superintendents, I sent them in just as clean as when Dr. Roy T. Williams gave them to me the 30th day of August 1931 at Dodge City, Kansas. Among the questions Dr. Williams asked me was this one: If at any time you should come to the place where you could not embrace the whole program of the church would you voluntarily return your credentials to the proper authorities?” (or words to that effect). I feel that time has come when I cannot go along with the whole program of the church as it is today, and here are some vital reasons why.

1. The church I joined in 1926 was a virile, impassioned and prayerful church, but now it seems cold, anemic and formal in its worship, generally speaking.

2. In many places the evangelist, preaching under unction the doctrine and experience of sanctification as a delivering second work of grace, finds it a struggle to have a revival, because of resistance from so called liberals who make up a large part of the congregation, which neutralizes the efforts of conviction upon the crowd as a whole.

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3. Preachers are urged by leaders not to preach on the negative side of the gospel, but only the positive. In my way of thinking the Law, or negative, must come first, then the positive, Calvary , or there will be no conviction for sin. Romans 7:7–9.

4. The doctrine of repentance, pertaining particularly to confession of covered sin, seems to me to be touched very lightly and many teach that there are some sins committed, especially like a husband or wife being unfaithful, that they should confess it only to God and not to the person sinned against. But the Word teaches that we must be reconciled to the one who hath ought against us. (Matthew 5:23–26 (Proverbs 28:13).

5. In my way of thinking the General Rules of the church are so abused by interpreting them on a human basis instead of Divine intention, that the standards of the church are almost obliterated by compromise with the world.

6. The membership committee in a great many places is a forgotten committee, and nothing is done about this breaking of the church law. As a consequence the church is filling up with members unacquainted with the real church standards.

7. The ring ceremony has taken the place of the modest wedding service as prescribed by the Manual, where no ring is mentioned nor any place made for it in the service.

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8. Doesn’t there seem to be a definite shifting from insisting on the membership being LOYAL to God, to being LOYAL to the church and ecclesiastical leadership?

9. In my observations, there seems to be an overshadowing by a liberal type of ministry over the so-called radical type ministry by boosting of the liberal to the discouragement of the radical type.

10. There seems to be a distinct preferen