What We Believe

Calvary Chapel is a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our greatest 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. We are opposed only to any emphasis on non-biblical teachings that divide the Body of Christ.

We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible—Old and New Testaments—is 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 premil­lennial 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.

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.

We believe worship of God should be Spiritual. Therefore, we give a great place to music in our worship.

We believe the worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our worship times 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 is Fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshiping him.