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To: RnMomof7
**He refuses to take a doctrinal stand and therefore has doctrinally ignorant members. A gospel preached with no foundation will be heard different ways by each listener **

He, as in Chuck Smith?

As far as doctrine goes, CC maintains the following:

Calvary Chapel has been formed as a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and to be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. **We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed to denominations as such, only their over-emphasis of the doctrinal differences that have led to the division of the Body of Christ** We believe that the only true basis of Christian fellowship is His (Agape) love, which is greater than any differences we possess and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christian.

There's more if you'd like me to share...

163 posted on 10/05/2003 10:15:46 PM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: mrs tiggywinkle; RnMomof7
Calvary Chapel has been formed as a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and to be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. **We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed to denominations as such, only their over-emphasis of the doctrinal differences that have led to the division of the Body of Christ** We believe that the only true basis of Christian fellowship is His (Agape) love, which is greater than any differences we possess and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christian.

So instead of belonging to a denomination that might have a doctrinal standard, they make up their own (denomination AND doctrinal standard) and then claim that those other denominations overemphasize theirs--this, when in reality most (at least, most mainline) denominations' churches barely preach or teach their own doctrines anyway!

What Calvary Chapel really means by this is that they will disassociate themselves from other churches, claim that those other churches are dividing the Body of Christ, and then go right on preaching whatever they want to, which will, no doubt, be just as divisive, and then deny that they're really teaching anything that might be controversial.

166 posted on 10/06/2003 1:36:48 AM PDT by The Grammarian
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