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 the emphasis of non-biblical teachings that divide the Body of Christ. We believe that the true basis of Christian fellowship is God’s love, which is greater than our differences. Without His love, we have no right to say we are Christians.
Calvary Chapel of Northern Kentucky is affiliated with Calvary Chapel Association. For more information about Calvary Chapel, please click here (https://calvarycca.org).
Below is a brief outline of our beliefs, intended to provide understanding of our position on important doctrines and issues. To review our full statement of faith including the Scriptural basis, please use this link (click here).
Calvary Chapel of Northern Kentucky is affiliated with Calvary Chapel Association. For more information about Calvary Chapel, please click here (https://calvarycca.org).
Below is a brief outline of our beliefs, intended to provide understanding of our position on important doctrines and issues. To review our full statement of faith including the Scriptural basis, please use this link (click here).
WE BELIEVE
WE BELIEVE in One eternal God Who exists in Three Persons; that the Godhead is without confusion of Person and without division of Nature, Substance, or Being.
WE BELIEVE that the Bible, as contained in the sixty-six canonical Books from Genesis to Revelation, are the inspired, inerrant Word of God; that they do not merely contain the words of God but are the very Word of God.
WE BELIEVE that humanity was specially created in the image and likeness of God and subsequently rebelled bringing sin and death into the world, resulting in separation from God. Having no capacity to rectify this within himself, he must look to God.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus, God the Son, the Second Person of the Triunity, took upon His full Deity full Humanity in the Incarnation through virgin birth; that He lived a life in perfect obedience to His Father’s will and Law, as no man ever is able to in his fallen humanity; that He willfully died to pay the just penalty of our rebellion through a substitutionary sacrifice, was raised bodily from the dead on the third day as reckoned by the Jews, ascended into heaven, and presently sits at His Father’s right hand until all things are placed under His feet as predicted in Scripture.
WE BELIEVE that He will return again soon, before the seven-year period at the end of human history known as the Tribulation to take for Himself a Bride, the redeemed of all mankind throughout the ages, to keep them from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the God-rejecting world.
WE BELIEVE that salvation is to be had by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus’ atoning death in our stead and cannot be accomplished by our own efforts. Nor can salvation be maintained apart from the grace of God. Those who are truly saved will exhibit this redeemed life by living a holy life through the power of the Holy Spirit, by submission to and dependence upon Him, confessing and repenting of their sins as the Spirit convicts.
WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit — Who is Himself God, the Third Person of the Triunity — indwells and empowers Christians; that He imparts gifts according to His Sovereign will to each believer in Jesus; that these gifts are for the edification of the Body, and among these gifts are tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, gifts of healing, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discernment of spirits, miracles, helps, mercy, faith, government, and that this is by no means an exhaustive list; that the evidence of being filled with Him is the production of His Fruit, according to Scripture.
WE BELIEVE that the Church is composed of all the redeemed of mankind, distinct from national Israel, though containing within herself both Jew and Gentile; that the Church is the one vehicle of God’s grace and operation in this dispensation, and that it in no way, manner, or form can be so thought of as to have supplanted national Israel or replaced her; that God’s purposes for national Israel are not fulfilled; that there is no “one true denomination;” that all the Redeemed are of the Church and that even in the best local church you will still find the unsaved; that the Church is powerless to save, but is simply a congregation of those who are already saved by virtue of their relationship to Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE that the true basis of Christian fellowship is God’s love, which is greater than our differences. Without His love, we have no right to say we are Christians.
WE BELIEVE that God, Creator of all, created marriage and has the right to define it. He created biological male and biological female; He created monogamous marriage between one biological male and one biological female as the foundation of the family. By this definition all other forms of marriage regardless of their status as defined by state or federal law are excluded. It also excludes all sexual relations outside of this defined marriage.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible so that the Holy Spirit may direct our worship.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, in our services, we emphasize Bible teaching so that God may instruct us how He would be worshiped.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give a great place to music in our worship.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the greatest evidence that we are truly worshiping Him.
WE BELIEVE in One eternal God Who exists in Three Persons; that the Godhead is without confusion of Person and without division of Nature, Substance, or Being.
WE BELIEVE that the Bible, as contained in the sixty-six canonical Books from Genesis to Revelation, are the inspired, inerrant Word of God; that they do not merely contain the words of God but are the very Word of God.
WE BELIEVE that humanity was specially created in the image and likeness of God and subsequently rebelled bringing sin and death into the world, resulting in separation from God. Having no capacity to rectify this within himself, he must look to God.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus, God the Son, the Second Person of the Triunity, took upon His full Deity full Humanity in the Incarnation through virgin birth; that He lived a life in perfect obedience to His Father’s will and Law, as no man ever is able to in his fallen humanity; that He willfully died to pay the just penalty of our rebellion through a substitutionary sacrifice, was raised bodily from the dead on the third day as reckoned by the Jews, ascended into heaven, and presently sits at His Father’s right hand until all things are placed under His feet as predicted in Scripture.
WE BELIEVE that He will return again soon, before the seven-year period at the end of human history known as the Tribulation to take for Himself a Bride, the redeemed of all mankind throughout the ages, to keep them from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the God-rejecting world.
WE BELIEVE that salvation is to be had by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus’ atoning death in our stead and cannot be accomplished by our own efforts. Nor can salvation be maintained apart from the grace of God. Those who are truly saved will exhibit this redeemed life by living a holy life through the power of the Holy Spirit, by submission to and dependence upon Him, confessing and repenting of their sins as the Spirit convicts.
WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit — Who is Himself God, the Third Person of the Triunity — indwells and empowers Christians; that He imparts gifts according to His Sovereign will to each believer in Jesus; that these gifts are for the edification of the Body, and among these gifts are tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, gifts of healing, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discernment of spirits, miracles, helps, mercy, faith, government, and that this is by no means an exhaustive list; that the evidence of being filled with Him is the production of His Fruit, according to Scripture.
WE BELIEVE that the Church is composed of all the redeemed of mankind, distinct from national Israel, though containing within herself both Jew and Gentile; that the Church is the one vehicle of God’s grace and operation in this dispensation, and that it in no way, manner, or form can be so thought of as to have supplanted national Israel or replaced her; that God’s purposes for national Israel are not fulfilled; that there is no “one true denomination;” that all the Redeemed are of the Church and that even in the best local church you will still find the unsaved; that the Church is powerless to save, but is simply a congregation of those who are already saved by virtue of their relationship to Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE that the true basis of Christian fellowship is God’s love, which is greater than our differences. Without His love, we have no right to say we are Christians.
WE BELIEVE that God, Creator of all, created marriage and has the right to define it. He created biological male and biological female; He created monogamous marriage between one biological male and one biological female as the foundation of the family. By this definition all other forms of marriage regardless of their status as defined by state or federal law are excluded. It also excludes all sexual relations outside of this defined marriage.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible so that the Holy Spirit may direct our worship.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, in our services, we emphasize Bible teaching so that God may instruct us how He would be worshiped.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give a great place to music in our worship.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the greatest evidence that we are truly worshiping Him.
WE REJECT
WE REJECT the irrational, religious hypothesis of “evolution,” whether theistic or atheistic; this including any and all conclusions of evolution, including secular psychology, secular philosophies, and all humancentric concepts of any sort.
WE REJECT any addition to faith in the equation of personal salvation.
WE REJECT the teachings of both “Five-Point Calvinism” and “Five-Point Arminianism,” especially the Calvinist teachings of a “limited atonement” and “irresistible grace,” and the Arminian teachings of an overemphasis on free moral agency.
WE REJECT the teachings of cessationism, which have no solid Biblical basis
WE REJECT the teachings and practices of hypercharismaticism/hyperpentecostalism, especially the overemphasis on experience and emotion to the detriment of sound reasoning and doctrine.
WE REJECT outright dominion theology and the New Apostolic Reformation movements.
WE REJECT outright the antichristian, metaphysical teachings of the so-called “Word-Faith Movement”.
WE REJECT the misdirected embrace of unbiblical sexual and gender lifestyles in the name of love and compassion. This includes what is commonly known as ‘Side A Christianity’ or ‘Affirming’ that claims one can be a faithful Christian and embrace sexual relations outside of biblical marriage. This includes what is commonly known as ‘Side B Christianity’ that claims a Christian can identify as one with homosexual desires but does not act upon them – remaining celibate.