About
Living Word Church
Worship
Worship is about value…what we value most in life.
We value God most when we know Him and experience Him.
HOW WE LIVE
Discipleship
Discipleship is becoming like Jesus…being a student of Jesus. Discipleship is Jesus preferred method of evangelism. Making more disciples and better disciples.
HOW WE LIVE
FELLOWSHIP
Fellowship is sharing…not just thoughts and ideas…everything, like a family.
SERVING
Whoever wants to be great must be a servant.
Even Jesus didn’t come to be served but to serve.
GIVING
God gives freely to us. He desires to be invited into the wonderful world he has made for each of us.
He invites us to be givers because being a giver changes US!
Our Beliefs
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We believe in one God, the Creator of all things, who reveals Himself as Father, Son, and Spirit.
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We believe in Jesus Christ, who is fully God and fully man at the same time, who became like us to bring about our salvation.
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We believe in the Holy Spirit, who is active in the world, bringing us to salvation.
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We believe that we are all sinners by both nature and act and need God’s forgiveness and cleansing.
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We believe that each person must repent (turn away from his sins) and trust Christ for forgiveness of sins in order to be restored into right relationship with God.
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We believe that after being born anew, we need the fullness of God’s Spirit in our hearts (entire sanctification). When we surrender all to Him, He cleanses our heart, fills us with His perfect love, and gives us the power to live victoriously.
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We believe that Jesus is coming again.
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We believe that the dead will be raised and that everyone will face the judgment of God with its rewards and punishments.
Our Affiliation - Church of the Nazarene
Living Word Church is part of the Church of the Nazarene denomination.
The Church of the Nazarene is a Protestant Christian church in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition.
As a global community of faith, we are commissioned to take the Good News of life in Jesus Christ to people everywhere and to spread the message of scriptural holiness across the lands.
Organized in 1908, the denomination is now home to about 2.5 million members worshipping in more than 30,000 congregations in 164 world areas.
If you'd like to learn more about the values and beliefs of the Church of the Nazarene, click here.
If you'd like to learn more about our university, Southern Nazarene University, click here.
OUR history
Living Word Church of the Nazarene (LWN) was founded in 1959 under the name Spring Branch Church of the Nazarene. The first building used for services was Valley Oaks Elementary School on Westview Drive.
It wasn't long before the small group of believers began to dream of purchasing land and building their own church. Groundbreaking occurred on August 16, 1959, to build a church on a lot of land on Westview.
The growing church purchased five acres on the corner of Campbell Rd. and Katy Freeway. Groundbreaking on the new property occurred in January 1967. The first Sunday in the new sanctuary was September 24, 1967.
In 1998 the state of Texas revealed plans to widen I-10 to a point that would cause Spring Branch Nazarene to move once again. In May of 2004, Spring Branch Nazarene purchased 10 acres of vacant land at the corner of Highland Knolls and Westgreen Blvd. for a future church plant. In December of 2004 which was sold later on for a new building & Spring Branch Nazarene voted to purchase a beautiful church on Clay Rd, just west of Hwy. 6.
On March 12, 2006, Spring Branch Church of the Nazarene officially became Living Word Church of the Nazarene at Bear Creek as we worshiped our Lord & Savior the first service at 16607 Clay Rd., Houston, Texas 77084.
