Ⅰ. 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.

Ⅱ. We Are 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.

Ⅲ. We Are 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 (a) begins in worship, (b) ministers to the world in evangelism and compassion, (c) encourages believers toward Christian maturity through discipleship, and (d) prepares women and men for Christian service through Christian higher education.

Recent Updates:

June, 2025

The entire website has been updated to a more secure platform and the PHP language has been updated as well, and most all of the content has been ported to the platform templating system.
Updated some article that were recent to May and June to conform with the new format of the new website. The older articles will still display but include elements of the home page with the article, which is quite acceptable.
Menu items changed to reflect the new website template. This will help the viewers to navigate the site easier and get the information that they want. Praise GOD!
We are now on the lastest and most secure version of the CMS and PHP that is currently offered. Please leave your comments at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Thank you!

April, 2025

Uploaded many articles to make website current for NMI, NCM, and Nazarene News.
Updated the bottom banner to include new NCM information.
Changed Homepage bottom banner to include thumbnails when hovering over buttons and a timer bar at the top.
Updates Home page to reflect new classes and times on Sunday Morning.
Added information regarding the Facilities fund drive which we direly need to make repairs on the church grounds from the recent hurricanes.

February, 2025

Added a new menu item for Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM)
Added new Slider on home page for Matthew 1-13 in the bottom Bulletin Banner
Added new Slider on home page for Woman's Retreat 2025
Added a featured articles menu item in the Events menu
Updated Home Page to remove Sunday School Services due to lack of participation.

December, 2023

Added a "slider" to feature bulletins and announcement on the Home page. The slider will feature not only our announcements, but those of other area churches that are brought to my attention and are note worthy.
Add December NMI updates.
Various housekeeping cleanup on several pages

November, 2023

Updated featured items on Home page to make use of the Layer Slider
Cleaned up and updated Nazarene News and NMI Updates to include latest information from Helen E.
Updated featured items to remove old items and include new listing from Anthem Church.
Updated Weekly Events to include Corinna D.'s new flyer for Kingdom Seekers. Remove old events.

September, 2023

Updated Nazarene New and NMI pages with latest info
Added a feature to the website to display Nazarene News on the right side of certain pages
Added 2 documents to Home Page and Updated NMI with latest information
Changed format of homepage documents to 3 columns
Updated Home Page weekly events

August, 2023

Updated Home Page to include Monthly Events and updated Sunday School Event.
Added new featured article, Tree Of Life, on the HOME page. Removed older HOME page featured articles.

July, 2023

Update NMI Central to include the past 4 months of articles. Now all articles in the NMI section will be on display by the month and year they were delivered, one page for every month. Article Monthly Index is included at the head of the page.
Added article for NMI Central - Asia-Pacific Region
Updated Home Page with Special & Weekly Events and Graphics.

June, 2023

Home page was updated to include featured articles now.
- I also moved the Recent Updates to the bottom of the homepage.
- All content in the Home page are now using Modules so it can be edited for format more easily.
Updates Mission & Value statement so the images are hosted from our website, not from the Nazarene Churches repository.
Created categories for present and past featured articles so that if someone wants to search our website for a specific article that is no longer being publish they have a way to find that article using the search feature of the website.
Added new featured article titled THREE WAYS TO OBSERVE DAY OF THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR to the Home page
SDMI page added, No expiry
NMI Menu changed to fix bug when viewing website in Android Chrome
NMI Central Updated
Changed the Events menu to now break out special events and weekly bulletins
Fixed a bug in the menu displaying on mobile devices.
Added the Special Events page, No Expiry
Added the Weekly Bulletins page, No Expiry
Changed Latest Videos menu to reflect a new format.
- It's now called Bayshore Media and will include a link to our playlist for all of the Sunday Sermons on the Bayshore YouTube account as well as a link to all of the In-house Presentation Music that has been uploaded to an my external YouTube account playlist for House Presentations.
Updated Home Page to reflect new events pages
Events page updated Saturday, June 10th, 2023, and will expire June 23rd, 2023.
NMI page updated with 1 article, June 10th, 2023, No expiry.
Nazarene News updated with 2 articles, June 10th, 2023, No expiry.

What You Need To Know

We Need Your Help

Due to the recent hurricanes, we have determined that several repairs are needed to keep our church safe and accessible to all.
So we have started a capital campaign to acquire the funds needed to make MOST all of the repairs. I submit to you our "A Better Bayshore" Fund Drive.

A BETTER BAYSHORE!
To repair and upgrade our facilities, we are initiating a capital improvement campaign.

1. Roof replacement (2): $37,430 (completed)
2. Front safety doors: $8K
3. New windows (32): $40K

GOAL: $103,000

May we each pray and give as the Lord directs us.
THANK YOU FOR LOVING AND PRAYING FOR OUR CHURCH.
GOD HAS MORE GOOD DAYS OF MINISTRY IN STORE FOR US!!

Current Amount of $43,399.51 received

Worship Times

ADULT CLASS ‘ORGANIC OUTREACH’ – 9:30 in the Nursery.
CHILDREN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL – Sunday @ 9:30am
CHILDREN’S BIBLE QUIZZING (K-5th) – Sun. @ 9:30 am
MORNING WORSHIP – Sundays @ 10:30 am
CHILDREN’S CHURCH – Sunday @ 10:30am

Special Events

Special Events:

See the Special Events page for more info

Special events for concerts and special guest speakers will be posted here.

Monthly Events: (None)

Check out our Bulletins for weekly event happenings.

You might find a group that you can share with.

Avenue941
- Bayshore Nazarene is a proud sponsor of Avenue941
- Offers tutoring assistance to Manatee County Students
  - Grades K thru 12
  - Find more information on their web site.
- Sessions will be held in the fellowship hall.
  - Tuesdays & Thursdays

Sidewalk Ministry
- We are having a great time BLESSING our community!
- For details on how you can donate supplies, pray or volunteer, reach out to Joy M. or Yolanda R.

Kingdom Seekers w/ Corinna Decker and Wanda Jackson.
- Fridays 6:30pm - 7:30-pm.
- Men & Woman ages 12 to 112 are welcome.

Granny Squares
- Tuesdays 10am - 12pm.
- Everyone is welcome and bring your knitting or crochet needles and be prepared to have a wonderful time of fellowship.
- Bring your own lunch.

Articles of Faith

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THE TRIUNE GOD

We believe in one eternally existent, infinite God, Sovereign Creator and Sustainer of the universe; that He only is God, holy in nature, attributes, and purpose. The God who is holy love and light is Triune in essential being, revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1; Leviticus 19:2; Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Isaiah 5:16; 6:1-7; 40:18-31; Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19-20; John 14:6-27; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Galatians 4:4-6; Ephesians 2:13-18; 1 John 1:5;4:8
JESUS CHRIST

We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Triune Godhead; that He was eternally one with the Father; that He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say the Godhead and manhood, are thus united in one Person very God and very man, the God-man.

We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and that He truly arose from the dead and took again His body, together with all things appertaining to the perfection of man’s nature, wherewith He ascended into heaven and is there engaged in intercession for us.

Matthew 1:20-25; 16:15-16; Luke 1:26-35; John 1:1-18; Acts 2:22-36; Romans 8:3, 32-34; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:12-22; 1 Timothy 6:14-16; Hebrews 1:1-5; 7:22-28; 9:24-28; 1 John 1:1-3; 4:2-3, 15
THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Triune Godhead, that He is ever present and efficiently active in and with the Church of Christ, convincing the world of sin, regenerating those who repent and believe, sanctifying believers, and guiding into all truth as it is in Jesus.

John 7:39; 14:15-18, 26; 16:7-15; Acts 2:33; 15:8-9; Romans 8:1-27; Galatians 3:1-14; 4:6; Ephesians 3:14-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 John 3:24; 4:13
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

We believe in the plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, by which we understand the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, inerrantly revealing the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our salvation, so that whatever is not contained therein is not to be enjoined as an article of faith.

Luke 24:44-47; John 10:35; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:10-12; 2 Peter 1:20-21
SIN, ORIGINAL AND PERSONAL

We believe that sin came into the world through the disobedience of our first parents, and death by sin. We believe that sin is of two kinds: original sin or depravity, and actual or personal sin.

We believe that original sin, or depravity, is that corruption of the nature of all the offspring of Adam by reason of which everyone is very far gone from original righteousness or the pure state of our first parents at the time of their creation, is averse to God, is without spiritual life, and inclined to evil, and that continually. We further believe that original sin continues to exist with the new life of the regenerate, until the heart is fully cleansed by the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

We believe that original sin differs from actual sin in that it constitutes an inherited propensity to actual sin for which no one is accountable until its divinely provided remedy is neglected or rejected.

We believe that actual or personal sin is a voluntary violation of a known law of God by a morally responsible person. It is therefore not to be confused with involuntary and inescapable shortcomings, infirmities, faults, mistakes, failures, or other deviations from a standard of perfect conduct that are the residual effects of the Fall. However, such innocent effects do not include attitudes or responses contrary to the spirit of Christ, which may properly be called sins of the spirit. We believe that personal sin is primarily and essentially a violation of the law of love; and that in relation to Christ sin may be defined as unbelief.

Original sin:

Genesis 3; 6:5; Job 15:14; Psalm 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9-10; Mark7:21-23; Romans 1:18-25; 5:12-14; 7:1-8:9; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4; Galatians 5:16-25; 1 John 1:7-8

Personal sin:

Matthew 22:36-40 {with 1 John 3:4}; John 8:34-36; 16:8-9; Romans 3:23; 6:15-23; 8:18-24; 14:23; 1 John 1:9-2:4; 3:7-10
ATONEMENT

We believe that Jesus Christ, by His sufferings, by the shedding of His own blood, and by His death on the Cross, made a full atonement for all human sin, and that this Atonement is the only ground of salvation, and that it is sufficient for every individual of Adam’s race. The Atonement is graciously efficacious for the salvation of those incapable of moral responsibility and for the children in innocency but is efficacious for the salvation of those who reach the age of responsibility only when they repent and believe.

Isaiah 53:5-6, 11; Mark 10:45; Luke 24:46-48; John 1:29; 3:14-17; Acts 4:10-12; Romans 3:21-26; 4:17-25; 5:6-21; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Galatians 1:3-4; 3:13-14; Colossians 1:19-23; 1 Timothy 2:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:9; 9:11-14; 13:12; 1 Peter 1:18- 21; 2:19-25; 1 John 2:1-2
PREVENIENT GRACE

We believe that the grace of God through Jesus Christ is freely bestowed upon all people, enabling all who will to turn from sin to righteousness, believe on Jesus Christ for pardon and cleansing from sin, and follow good works pleasing and acceptable in His sight. We also believe that the human race’s creation in Godlikeness included the ability to choose between right and wrong, and that thus human beings were made morally responsible; that through the fall of Adam they became depraved so that they cannot now turn and prepare themselves by their own natural strength and works to faith and calling upon God.

Godlikeness and moral responsibility:

Genesis 1:26-27; 2:16-17; Deuteronomy 28:1-2; 30:19; Joshua 24:15; Psalm 8:3-5; Isaiah 1:8-10; Jeremiah 31:29-30; Ezekiel 18:1-4; Micah 6:8; Romans 1:19-20; 2:1-16; 14:7-12; Galatians 6:7-8

Natural inability:

Job 14:4; 15:14; Psalms 14:1-4; 51:5; John 3:6a; Romans 3:10-12; 5:12-14, 20a; 7:14-25

Free grace and works of faith:

Ezekiel 18:25-26; John 1:12-13; 3:6b; Acts 5:31; Romans 5:6-8, 18; 6:15-16, 23; 10:6-8; 11:22; 1 Corinthians 2:9-14;10:1-12; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19; Galatians 5:6; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:21-23; 2 Timothy 4:10a; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:1-3; 3:12-15; 6:4-6; 10:26-31; James 2:18-22; 2 Peter 1:10-11; 2:20-22
REPENTANCE

We believe the Spirit of God gives to all who will repent the gracious help of penitence of heart and hope of mercy, that they may believe unto pardon and spiritual life. Repentance, which is a sincere and thorough change of the mind in regard to sin, involving a sense of personal guilt and a voluntary turning away from sin, is demanded of all who have by act or purpose become sinners against God.

We believe that all persons may fall from grace and apostatize and, unless they repent of their sins, be hopelessly and eternally lost. We believe that regenerate persons need not return to sin but may live in unbroken fellowship with God through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit who bears witness with our spirits that we are children of God.

2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 32:5-6; 51:1-17; Isaiah 55:6-7; Jeremiah 3:12-14; Ezekiel 18:30-32; 33:14-16; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 3:1-14; 13:1-5; 18:9-14; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 17:30-31; 26:16-18; Romans 2:4; 2 Corinthians 7:8-11; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 2 Peter 3:9

Ⅰ. We Are a Christian People

Ⅱ. We Are a Holiness People

Ⅲ. We Are a Missional People

Recent Updates:

What You Need To Know

We Need Your Help

A BETTER BAYSHORE!
To repair and upgrade our facilities, we are initiating a capital improvement campaign.

Worship Times

Worship Times

Special Events

Special Events:

See the Special Events page for more info

Monthly Events: (None)

Check out our Bulletins for weekly event happenings.

Weekly Events:

Articles of Faith

Godlikeness and moral responsibility:

Natural inability:

Free grace and works of faith:

NIV Copyright: Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Ⅰ. We Are a Christian People

Ⅱ. We Are a Holiness People

Ⅲ. We Are a Missional People

Recent Updates:

What You Need To Know

We Need Your Help

A BETTER BAYSHORE!To repair and upgrade our facilities, we are initiating a capital improvement campaign.

Worship Times

Worship Times

Special Events

Special Events:

See the Special Events page for more info

Monthly Events: (None)

Check out our Bulletins for weekly event happenings.

Weekly Events:

Articles of Faith

Godlikeness and moral responsibility:

Natural inability:

Free grace and works of faith:

NIV Copyright: Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

A BETTER BAYSHORE!
To repair and upgrade our facilities, we are initiating a capital improvement campaign.