What We Believe

Crossroads Church is part of the Church of the Nazarene. The Church of the Nazarene is a Protestant Christian church in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. Organised in 1908, the denomination is now home to about 2.5 million members worshipping in more than 30,000 congregations in 165 world areas.

Visit the Nazarene website to find out more about what we belief and to read the Articles of Faith.

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“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. “

– Jeremiah 6:16 NIV

Communion

We offer communion every Sunday.

In the Church of the Nazarene, we believe this meal is a sacrament—a holy encounter with God—proclaiming Jesus’s life, sufferings, death, resurrection, and the hope of Christ’s coming again.

We acknowledge God’s presence among us in a special way each time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper. We also desire to remember anew the death Jesus endured. And we receive afresh the life into which Christ’s Holy Spirit calls us.

We invite everyone to participate. And we want everyone to be able to participate. You don’t have to be baptised, be a member of our local church or the Church of the Nazarene.

Jesus said …, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

John 6:53–56 NIV

Baptism

The Church of the Nazarene practices baptism.

We believe that Christian baptism, commanded by our Lord, is a sacrament signifying acceptance of the benefits of the atonement of Jesus Christ, to be administered to believers and declarative of their faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior, and full purpose of obedience in holiness and righteousness.

Baptism may be administered by sprinkling, pouring, or immersion (we love doing Baptisms in the Waikato River), according to the choice of the applicant.

Please contact us if you would like to know more about this sacrament.

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