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CALVARY CHAPEL LABELS

Labels can often be misleading but for the sake of clarity and helping you “get a fix” on where we are in terms of certain doctrinal issues, you could say that we are . . .

Evangelical • We believe the only hope for man is in faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning work on the cross.

Charismatic • We believe in the baptism with the Holy Spirit and that all the gifts of the Spirit are available today.

Premillennial & Pretribulational • We believe the Church will be caught up to meet the Lord before a seven-year period of Tribulation, and we believe in a literal 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth.

Conservative • We're speaking spiritually and morally, not politically. Simply, we believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures and that they are the moral and spiritual authority against which everything must be weighed.

Are We Reformed or Arminianists? • It's hard to answer this question in this space. It would be proper to say that we are neither, while at the same time being parts of each of these doctrinal camps. We believe in the sovereignty of God while holding to the real freedom and responsibility of man, albeit, in bondage to sin. We leave this on-going issue of debate open and address each part of it as we cover pertinent passages of the Scriptures. In other words, we try to study the Bible with an open mind rather than seeing each passage through a predetermined doctrinal filter