| Calvary Chapel has been formed as a
fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme
desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of
the Holy Spirit. We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed
to denominations as such, only to their over-emphasis of the doctrinal
differences that have led to the division of the Body of Christ. |
We
believe the only true basis of Christian fellowship is
Christ's Agape love, which is greater than any differences we possess
and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.
We
believe worship of God should be spiritual.
Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy
Spirit to direct our worship.
We
believe worship of God should be inspirational.
Therefore, we give great place to music in our worship.
We
believe worship of God should be intelligent.
Therefore, our services are designed with great emphasis upon the
teaching of the Word of God that He might instruct us how He should be
worshipped.
We
believe worship of God should be fruitful.
Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme
manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We
believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
We
believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old
and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God.
We
believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct
persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We
believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign
Creator of all things.
We
believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that
He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the
atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was
bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the
Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
We
believe in the personal, visible, and pre-millennial second
coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. He will return with His saints and
set up a kingdom of which there will be no end.
After
Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on
the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to
preach the Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all
believers today.
We
believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God
and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and
forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as
personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is
immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins
are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend
eternity with the Lord.
We
believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the
Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are exercised
within the scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the best
gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ
might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most
spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual
gifts is worthless.
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