Immanuel Nashville — Church Directory

Quick Facts

Pastor — the shepherd God holds accountable TJ Tims (Lead Pastor since 2019); Ray Ortlund Jr. (Founding Pastor, now Pastor to Pastors)

Founded 2008

Denomination Non-Denominational

Service Times Sunday morning (see website)

Men's Ministry No

Kids Ministry Yes

Website www.immanuelnashville.com

Pastor Credentials See website

10-Point Theological Scorecard

Christology

Is Jesus the only way? (John 14:6)

Reformed Trinitarian expected (Ortlund-founded); verify local statement.

Strong

Scripture

Inerrancy affirmed? Final authority?

Inerrancy expected — Ortlund served on ESV review committee and NLT translation committee for Psalms.

Strong

Men's Discipleship

Intentional formation for men?

Not surfaced on available pages — verify.

Caution

Soteriology

Faith alone? How is salvation presented?

Reformed Protestant sola fide (Ortlund Reformed tradition).

Strong

Gender / Biblical Design

Biblical manhood and womanhood by God's design — patriarchal, complementarian, egalitarian, or affirming gender ideology?

Acts 29 complementarian standard; Ortlund Reformed patriarchy — verify TJ Tims's current practice.

Verify

Caution

Leadership Structure

Male elders/pastors? Accountability?

Lead Pastor TJ Tims (male, since 2019); Ray Ortlund Jr. founding pastor (serves as Pastor to Pastors).

Caution

Preaching Style

Expository or topical/therapeutic?

Gospel-centered expository expected (Ortlund was Acts 29 regional director; Immanuel in Acts 29 since 2009).

Strong

Mission Clarity

Great Commission central?

Homepage (2026-04-23): 'Making the real Jesus non-ignorable in our city and far beyond' — clear Great Commission framing; 'built on gospel doctrine and gospel culture' (Ortlund formulation).

Caution

Cultural Alignment

DEI/CRT language? Social justice crowding out gospel?

Reformed/Gospel-Coalition-adjacent; no DEI/CRT vocabulary expected. | GREEN signal: *** INITIAL SIGNER (one of the founding 153) *** Pastor Ray Ortlund is a public signatory of "The Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality" (CBMW, 2017-08-25, cbmw.org/nashville-statement). The Nashville Statement is the post-2017 evangelical line on biblical anthropology, marriage, and sexual ethics — affirming creation order, one-man-one-woman marriage, and biblical sexuality. Signing places the pastor on the orthodox / non-affirming side of the 2017 evangelical fault line.

Caution

Accountability Structure

Denominational home, elder plurality, or external network — is the pastor answerable to anyone?

Homepage fetch did not re-surface Acts 29 text; Our Doctrine and Our Leadership pages exist but not scraped. Prior Acts 29 / Ortlund-founded finding retained.

Caution

Assessment

National directory entry — web-verified pastor, website, and Facebook. Visit website for full theological details.

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MOOP Engagement Tracker

How this church was personally verified by the MOOP directory team:

✓ Researched church website

Pastor Signatures & Affiliations [Orthodox-aligned signatures]

Public statement signatures and organizational affiliations of this church's named pastors. "People is policy" — these are evidence-weighted signals about doctrinal trajectory, not the sole determinant of any rating.

Nashville Statement

Ray Ortlund Jr.

Source: cbmw.org — hover for details

Sources & Evidence

Enrichment Notes

Strong positive signals: Ray Ortlund Jr. (Reformed, TGC, ESV committee) founded; TJ Tims lead since 2019; Acts 29. Upgraded overall to green.

These are the URLs consulted to arrive at this church's scoring. Score-note claims are synthesized from homepage content, denominational directories, and public statements of faith at the time of review. Church websites change frequently; we're progressively adding Internet Archive snapshots to prevent link rot.

[1] Live source immanuelnashville.com
[2] Live source thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/ray-ortlund/immanuel-and-act…
[3] Live source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_C._Ortlund_Jr.

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