Renovating Holiness

Renovating Holiness is a joint project by more than 100 Nazarene leaders from around the globe. We have intentionally sought as much diversity as possible in terms of ethnicity, gender, and location. We have also limited our contributors to members of Generation X (born from 1960 to 1979) and the Millennial generation (born from 1980 to 1999) in order to amplify the much neglected voices of our younger leaders. These writers are Nazarenes and joyfully so, and yet they call for change. They call for change in doctrine, in teaching, in practice, and in perspective. Mostly, they call for a renovation that enables them to raise their children and their children’s children in this church they love. This book is a call for change, but even more it is a call for open conversation about change. For too long, we have considered the doctrine of holiness off limits, our own sacred cow, impervious to all forces of cultural change.

Renovating Holiness is a joint project by more than 100 Nazarene leaders from around the globe. We have intentionally sought as much diversity as possible in terms of ethnicity, gender, and location. We have also limited our contributors to members of Generation X (born from 1960 to 1979) and the Millennial generation (born from 1980 to 1999) in order to amplify the much neglected voices of our younger leaders. These writers are Nazarenes and joyfully so, and yet they call for change. They call for change in doctrine, in teaching, in practice, and in perspective. Mostly, they call for a renovation that enables them to raise their children and their children’s children in this church they love. This book is a call for change, but even more it is a call for open conversation about change. For too long, we have considered the doctrine of holiness off limits, our own sacred cow, impervious to all forces of cultural change.