WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT WORSHIP

Worship of God should be according to truth. Therefore, we view God’s Word, the Bible, as being our final authority for faith and practice.

Worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we seek to live our lives by the enabling power of the Holy Spirit.

Worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His agape love flowing from our lives as being the supreme evidence that we have been worshipping Him.

Worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to music and singing in our services and meetings.

Worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, we place great emphasis on the teaching of the Word of God as we gather.

CALVARY CHAPEL STATEMENT OF FAITH

This statement of our faith is not debatable, meaning that we do not enter into argument/debate over these issues. Our focus is fellowship with the Father and the Son, and then with one another as an outflow of that fellowship (1 John 1:1-4). We are not focused on convincing others of the correctness of our views.

We Believe in all the fundamental doctrines of orthodox evangelical Christianity.

We Believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments, is the inspired, infallible Word of God.

We Believe in one God Who is eternally existent in three separate persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We Believe that God the Father 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 vicarious death on the cross, was bodily resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit, ascended back to the right hand of God the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.

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 even the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.

We Believe that church government should be simple, rather than a complex bureaucracy. We depend on the Holy Spirit to lead the church, rather than on fleshly promotion.

We Await the pre-tribulation rapture of the church, and We Believe that the second coming of Christ with His saints to rule on earth will be personal, pre-millennial, and visible. This motivates us to holy living, heartfelt worship, committed service, diligent study of God’s Word, regular fellowship, and participation in adult baptism by immersion, and Holy Communion.

We Seek to teach the Word of God in such a way that its message can be applied to an individual’s life, leading that person to greater maturity in Christ.

In Our Services, we focus on a personal relationship with God through worship, prayer, and the teaching of the Word of God. We teach both expositional and topically. We do not allow speaking in tongues loudly during services, nor prophecy while a Bible study is in progress, because we do not believe that the Holy Spirit would interrupt Himself. We will have specific "after-glow services" and believer's meetings when these gifts of the Spirit may be exercised.