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Over US$225,000 has been donated so far! Other charities also need your help. Calvary Chapel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Calvary Chapel was one part of the " Jesus Movement " in the late . The first Calvary Chapel was Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa in Costa Mesa, California Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel, is considered by many to have been most instrumental in this revival . His evangelical teachings centered on leading souls to salvation in Jesus C. Peter Wagner , in his book Churchquake , lists Calvary Chapel as the point of origination of the New Apostolic Reformation , although Calvary Chapel denies any affiliation with the movement. Calvary Chapel calls itself a non-denominational church, and has over a thousand affilliated churches world-wide. Calvary Chapel also runs several Bible colleges ,in the U.S.A., U.K., Australia, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Spain, Russia, Phillipines, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and Hungary. Contents Church Government Ordination/Affiliation of Pastors Practices ... edit Theology Calvary Chapel's teachings are evangelical and moderately charismatic in nature. Calvary Chapel's theology have become a new wave of thought in sytematic doctrine, as seeing that they pull from the pietist, anabaptist, wesleyan, and fundamentalist traditions, yet fuses them so as to form what they call "a balance". According to the movement's leader, Pastor Chuck Smith emphasizes strongly the need for dependency on the Bible and also on the Holy Spirit. Calvary Chapel is orthodox in their views of all essential Christian doctrines, however distinctively they hold to a moderate dispensational tenet that discourages the Reader-Response approach to scripture but rather uses the Authorial-Intent formula for interpreting scripture, thus they believe the Church and Israel to be two separate institutes of God. In their eschatology they are primarily pre-tribulation premillienialist. Calvary Chapel also exhibits a strong tendency toward criticizing of mainline | |
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