Our Statement of Faith

Doctrine

• We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments are 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 premillennial personal, visible 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.

• After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.

• 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.

Philosophy of Ministry

• We believe that the book of Acts, as well as the Epistles of the New Testament give us the principles by which the church is to function.

• We place great importance on the exposition of the Scriptures. And, a specific emphasis on chapter-by-chapter teaching through the entire Bible.

• We rely strongly upon the ministry of the Holy Spirit and seek to remain flexible to His leading. We believe that the Holy Spirit’s leading will always be consistent with the clear teaching of the Scripture.

• We are convinced that, where God guides, He provides. Therefore we trust the Lord to provide for and to build His church.

• We seek to worship and serve the Lord within the context of our culture, yet we recognize that the culture must conform to the Scriptures, not the Scriptures to the culture.

Morality

• The Scriptures place a high moral standard on those who would be ministers of the Gospel. Therefore we expect moral and ethical integrity among those with whom we fellowship.

• Calvary Chapel Outreach Fellowships reserve the right to disfellowship any who become doctrinally aberrant, philosophically incompatible, or morally compromised.