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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. |
