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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.
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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.
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worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading
of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
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We believe
worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to music in our worship.
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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.
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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.
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We believe
in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
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We believe
in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God.
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We believe
that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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We believe
that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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