About us





Welcome to the Shelbyville First Church of the Nazarene

On behalf of the congregation in Shelbyville, let me welcome you to our website. We are encouraged that you chose to visit us in this way. We are constantly searching for better ways to meet the needs of our church family and this site is a response to that effort. I invite you to take a long look at us. Shelbyville First Church of the Nazarene may be just the church for you and your family.

Pastor Bohall - Senior Pastor



Our Core Values



1. We Are a Christian People

As members of the Church Universal, we join with all true believers in proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ. 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.

2. 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 work of grace in us to cleanse 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.

3. 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. 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 each believer for Christian service through Christian education.