Manny is a member of RR-BB. Link at NazNet’s Pastors and Their Dubious Theology Reformed Nazarene (contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. Jude 1:3) us-theology/

What is NazNet? As I wrote before, it is an online website discussion group, founded by Nazarenes. Although not officially sanctioned by the Nazarene denomination, they were allowed to have a booth at the General Assembly in 2009. A statement on the site describes NazNet: “The NazNet Fellowship Forum is an Internet-based forum for members and friends of the Church of the Nazarene. Dave McClung, G.R. “Scott” Cundiff, and Hans Deventer are moderators of the Forum.” Here, members ( of which I am still one) can post topics for discussion, generally about community or theological issues, among other topics that include sports, prayer requests, technology questions, and other categories.
I joined NazNet last year as a way to participate in discussions regarding the Bible and mostly regarding the emergent church movement. What is disturbing to me, is that many of the participants on Naznet, including pastors, are trying to pass off some very distorted thinking as orthodox Christian doctrine, or as traditional Nazarene doctrine and beliefs.

Recently, this group started a new topic- about me. Yes, they like to talk about me from time to time, and about my concerned Nazarene friends, a group that just keeps on growing every day- thank the Lord! The title of the topic was, Dan Boone engages with Manny at his reformednazarene blog, and was “inspired” by my issues with Trevecca Nazarene University and Dan Boone. I read some of it, which was started by Rich Schmidt, a regular on NazNet. Here is how he started the discussion:


The other day I realized it had been quite a while since I’d heard anything about the Concerned Nazarenes, so I decided to hop over to their Facebook group and Manny’s “Reformed Nazarene” blog… where I was surprised to discover that Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University, had engaged with Manny on his blog!

It appears to have started with Manny’s post on February 1 about Trevecca “promoting mysticism and pagan practices.” I guess Dan left some comments on that post and may have emailed Manny directly as well. The next couple of posts (Feb. 8 and Feb. 12) brought some of that conversation to the surface.


Manny is a good guy and NazNet has no business ridiculing him, Joe Staniforth or Tim Wirth.