| Calvary Chapel is a fellowship of believers in
the lordship of Jesus Christ. Our greatest desire is to know Christ and to be
ever more transformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We encourage
this by abiding in Jesus Christ through His Word, prayer and fellowship. As the
supernatural and sovereign agent in regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptises all
believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit
also indwells, sanctifies, instructs and empowers them for service, sealing them
unto the day of redemption. Love is the greatest virtue and demonstration of the
reality of Jesus Christ. We endeavour to show a Christ-like love toward all peoples.
Love should be exhibited in our lives by our words as well as our actions. Our
goal is to develop the ministry of every member to the benefit of all. |
| WE BELIEVE: - that the Bible is the inspired, infallible,
authoritative Word of God, and is relevant and applicable to all peoples today.
We place great emphasis upon teaching it in public, studying it in private, and
using it as a guide for our daily lives.
- that there is but one living
and true God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes,
one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons — the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit — equally deserving worship and obedience.
-
in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin birth, in His sinless life,
in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in
His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the Right Hand of the Father, and
His personal return in power and glory to rule the earth.
- that the salvation
of all humankind, who is sinful and lost, is instantaneous and accomplished solely
by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God
when the repentant sinner — enabled by the Holy Spirit — responds in
faith. This salvation is afforded by grace on the basis of the redeeming work
of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit
or works.
- that all who put their trust in Jesus Christ are immediately
placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body — the Church —
of which Christ is the head. The purpose of the Church is to glorify God by building
its members up in the faith, by instruction of the Word, by fellowship, by keeping
the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the Gospel to the entire world.
The formation of the Church, the Body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost
and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the Rapture. The
church will return with him to the earth and assist in His ruling over His earth
from His throne in Jerusalem.
- in the bodily resurrection of both the
saved and the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life and the unsaved
unto the resurrection of damnation.
|
|
