Statement of Faith
Calvary Chapel Crossover
Calvary Chapel Crossover 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 Believe
We believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
We believe that all people are by nature separated from God and are responsible for their own sin. 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 by 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 inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments, is the inspired and 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 man. He was born of a virgin and lived a sinless life. Jesus provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross and was bodily raised from the dead. He ascended to the right hand of the Father and ever lives to make intercession for us.
We await the pre-tribulation rapture of the church. We believe in the personal, visible and pre-millennial 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.
We believe that 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 in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are exercised within scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love so 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.
We believe the worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
We believe the worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give a great place to music in our worship.
We believe the worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, church services are designed with great emphasis upon teaching the Word of God that He might instruct us
We believe the worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We believe that the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ’s agape love, which is greater than any differences we possess.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6