About Nicholas
Rev. Nicholas Hect is the founder and director of the Center for Holiness & Thought. He lives in South Dakota with his wife, Tifani, and their four children.
Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Nicholas grew up in the Pilgrim Holiness and Wesleyan tradition. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and English from Indiana Wesleyan University. He holds a Master of Divinity in Biblical Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.
Nicholas is ordained in The Wesleyan Church. He has served more than fifteen years in pastoral ministry, from church plants to large congregations. That includes six years on staff at a large multisite church in South Dakota.
Today he leads the Center for Holiness & Thought. He preaches at camp meetings, conferences, retreats, and Sunday services.
THE MISSION
SALVATION FULL AND FREE
Carved in the stone outside Hughes Auditorium at Asbury University are these words:
Free Salvation for all men.
Full Salvation from all Sin.
We know a better gospel than we are preaching. Somewhere along the way, Christians, even pastors and church leaders, stopped talking about the freedom that is found only through holy living. We are often told that holiness is outdated. We are told it must be reimagined or redefined. In fact, it simply needs to be preached and practiced.
The great promise of the gospel is freedom from Sin. God desires a holy people. I spent more than ten years chasing progressive Christianity, hoping to justify sinful habits that were destroying me. Sure, I would talk about loving your neighbor, injustice, legalism and hypocrisy in the church, and—while those causes may be legitimate—they were a smokescreen to avoid living the way Jesus commands.
God offers more than a salvation that leaves you a slave to Sin. God is not done with you. He wants to set you free to live the life you were created to live. To use an older word, God wants you to be sanctified: set apart, set free, a slave to nothing but Christ.
So, until Christ returns or calls me home, I intend to preach “Salvation full and free” to all who have ears to hear.
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen—such alone will shake the gates of hell…”
John Wesley