Calvary Chapelites!!!!

[vangelicmonk]

Lets hear from my Calvary Chapel peoples!!! All you Chuck Smith lovin', dove supportin', pretrib preachin' people at!!!! Come as you are!!! The church that came from Hippies.

Please no hatin on this thread please.

Hey what do all of you CC's think of having a sub forum on this site to talk about CC stuff?? Good idea? Would you support it? Would others support it with me? Can we even do that?

[Artificial Intelligence]

I’m all for it, but the thing is that there would need to be many sub forums for the many other Churches represented here as well. I hear what you are saying and I wish it too. :)

[savedbyfaithinchrist]

I support it

I Love my Fellowship with Calvery Chapelites there a good group of people who stay to the word and are not afraid to stand up for Christ :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[simonpeter52]

I went to calvary chapel fort lauderdale from 2000-2002. I miss that church.

[member718]

Calvary Chapelites... "if the church is really teachin' the people keep on reachin'"

Never had I found a home church until I found Calvary Chapel.

[savedbyfaithinchrist]

Hey guys just wanted to say that does any 1 have the Chuck Smith Mp3 set it rocks all about the word

[Entertaining_Angels]

I would love a CC subforum. I tried the charismatic forum for awhile but there is too much strangeness and because I had been recovering from word of faith theology teachings, that was not the forum for me. As has been mentioned by other CC types, it would be nice to have a charismatic board here as opposed to its resident charismania board.

[simonpeter52]

What calvary chapel do you all go to?

[simonpeter52]

Calvary chapel says it is non deomoniational, but if you read Chuck Smith's book "Calvary Chapel Distinctives" you start to see that it is a demoniation that takes a centerist viewpoint of everything. I love my CC

[Artificial Intelligence]

Menifee! Been going there for a couple years though this year my attendance has suffered some because of an injury. I’ve been attending Calvary Chapel since I was twenty. Oh and yes, I have those MP3’s as well as some on cassette tape.

[savedbyfaithinchrist]

I go to CC in Williamsport PA but i used to live in VA i went to HamptonRds CC Newportnews CC and VA Beach CC all good churches.

I also am praying to move back to the south to NC Elizabeth city and go to that CC just planted by a good Friend

[coastie]

Calvary Chapel rules!

Calvary Chapel Modesto with Pastor Damian Kyle. Very much a teaching church!

http://www.ccmodesto.com/

[savedbyfaithinchrist]

Keep it ALIVE

[savedbyfaithinchrist]

I saw this story on CC newport news site and cried



SHOWING GOD'S LOVE

Doug Nichols went to India to be a missionary, but while he was

just starting to study the language he became infected with tuberculosis

and had to be put in a sanitarium.

It was not a very good place to be. It was not very clean and

conditions were difficult because there were so many sick people there.

But Doug decided to do the best he could in that situation. So he took a

bunch of Christian books and tracts and tried to share the gospel with

the other patients in the sanitarium.

But when he tried to pass out tracts, no one wanted them. He tried

to hand out books, but no one would take them. He tried to talk with

them, but he was handicapped because of his inability to communicate in

their language, and he felt so discouraged.

There he was. Because of his illness he would be there a long time.

But it seemed like the work that he had been sent to do would not be

done because no one would listen to him.

Because of his tuberculosis, every night at about 2 o'clock he

would wake up with chronic coughing that wouldn't quit. Then one night

when he awoke he noticed across the aisle an old man trying to get out

of bed. He said the man would roll himself up into a little ball and

teeter back and forth trying to get up the momentum to get up and stand

on his feet. But he just couldn't do it. He was too weak.

Finally, after several attempts the old man laid back and wept. The

next morning Doug understood why the man was weeping. He was trying to

get up to go to the bathroom and didn't have enough strength to do that.

So his bed was a mess and there was a smell in the air.

The other patients made fun of the old man. The nurses came to

clean up his bed and they weren't kind to him, either. In fact, one of

them even slapped him in the face. Doug said that the old man just laid

there and cried.

Doug said, "That next night about 2 o'clock I started coughing

again. I looked across the way and there was the old man trying to get

out of bed once more. I really didn't want to do it, but somehow I

managed to get up and I walked across the aisle and I helped the old man

stand up."

But he was too weak to walk, so Doug said, "I took him in my arms

and carried him like a baby. He was so light that it wasn't a difficult

task. I took him into the bathroom, which was nothing more than a dirty

hole in the floor, and I stood behind him and cradled him in my arms as

he took care of himself."

"Then I carried him back to his bed and laid him down. As I turned

to leave he reached up and grabbed my face and pulled me close and

kissed me on the cheek and said what I think was `Thank you.'"

Doug said, "The next morning there were patients waiting when I

awoke and they asked if they could read some of the books and tracts

that I had brought. Others had questions about the God I worshiped and

His only begotten Son who came into the world to die for their sins."

Doug Nichols says that in the next few weeks he gave out all the

literature that he had brought, and many of the doctors and nurses and

patients in that sanitarium came to know Jesus Christ, too.

He said, "Now what did I do? I didn't preach a sermon. I couldn't

even communicate in their language. I didn't have a great lesson to

teach them. I didn't have wonderful things to offer. All I did was take

an old man to the bathroom and anyone can do that."

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone

who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not

know God, for God is love." (1 John 4:7-8)

What can you do to express the love of God to people around you

today?

[Mr. 5020]

I'm a Calvary Chapelite. Just saying hi. :)

[vangelicmonk]

Grew up at the Calvary Chapel Albuquerque, w/ Pastor Skip Heitzig and then Pete Nelson currently.

Attended the Calvary Chapel Fresno and also going to a church very similar to Calvary Chapel now, but I still want to support and be part of CC.

[1saved1]

Calvary Chapel . . . it's the Word, it's the Word, it's the Word. God's Word is AWESOME!!!

Blessings

[urbanlemur2005]

I went to CC in Salt Lake City for about a year back in 2003. It was great....Pastor Terry Long was superb. They love the Lord and it shows in everything they do. Despite living in an area dominated by the mormon church, they co-existed very well with them.

[knownbeforetime]

My best friends are Calvary Chapelites!!!! I think it's called North Country Chapel in northern Idaho. I went there once and I liked it. They got me hooked on Chuck Missler's teachings.

There isn't a Calvary Chapel where I live but I go to a similar church called Abundant Grace which is part of New Frontiers International.

[regeneratedheart]

We started going to CC in Ft Valley, Ga, moved to CC Ft Lauderdale, then CC Sunrise. Now with a new start up church in Atlanta. It's all about Love. I was a hippie and I knew some of the guys going to CC in California many years ago. It was Chuck's wife that had a heart for the hippies. She convinced him with her tears that he should speak to them. Soon they were camping in his living room and Jesus Freaks were on the scene forevermore.:cool: cool

[JonF]

Hey what do all of you CC's think of having a sub forum on this site to talk about CC stuff?? Good idea? Would you support it? Would others support it with me? Can we even do that?:thumbsup: :amen: :thumbsup:

[knownbeforetime]

Hey what do all of you CC's think of having a sub forum on this site to talk about CC stuff?? Good idea? Would you support it? Would others support it with me? Can we even do that?I would post there (even though I'm not CC)!

[BigNorsk]

I was reading their beliefs and they seem pretty mainstream evangelical. So often much is left out. Was there a reason that they struck out on their own, forming what has become another de facto denomination?

If no real reason, that's fine, I was just wondering the history.

Marv

[LoviesLady]

I went to a Calvary Chapel in Cali from 2003-2005. I loved it and really miss it!


Sarah

[knownbeforetime]

I was reading their beliefs and they seem pretty mainstream evangelical. So often much is left out. Was there a reason that they struck out on their own, forming what has become another de facto denomination?

If no real reason, that's fine, I was just wondering the history.

MarvWhat I've heard, don't know if it's true, is that Chuck Smith was tired of all the showy business that mainstream churches were into. And that Chuck Smith read in the book of Acts about how "the Lord added to their number every day". Can any CC's verify this?

[regeneratedheart]

Chuck says that in the begining years he had a certain amount of sermons, not unlike a lot of preachers at that time, when he would start running out of sermons he would begin to look for a new church to go to. One night at a prayer meeting a brother had a vision and said that one day Chuck would lead a lot of people to the lord, thousands. At that time he was struggling with a small church in Orange County, the first Calvary Chapel. He began teaching one chapter of the Bible a week and the church grew very quickly because of the studies and the truth being revealed. The church outgrew the tiny chapel and soon they were having outdoor meetings and a much larger church was eventually built. My favorite story is that when they finally installed the carpet in the sanctuary the deacons took it on themselves to put up signs saying "No Bare Feet in the Sanctuary Please" in order to keep the carpet clean,(lots of hippies back then). When Chuck found out about the signs he told everyone that if carpet was more important than human beings then they would either tear up the carpet or go back outside to study Gods word.

Chuck teaches that all churches are a part of the body, provided they are Bible based with the focus on Jesus. He tells us that some people need the "High Churches" with all its pomp and ceremony, some people need less and some people need very little. CC is very casual. Most CC just let the Holy Spirit do most of the work on peoples hearts and you can see them changing. It's truly awsome. He also puts a lot of emphasis on Love, which come to think of it is what attracted all the hippies.
What attracted me was the chapter by chapter study of Gods word. As far as them being non-denominational I have been to many CC's and they are somewhat different. For instance most of them do not take up an offering, they just leave boxes out in the hallway and hope for the best,( God is not broke) but I have been to some that take up offerings. There is also no "joining" the church, if you show up you're as much a member as anyone else.

[BigNorsk]

That's a very nice history. Thanks.

I was helped immensely by a nice Baptist minister during my college years. He was a teacher not a preacher, it looked a lot like a college lecture room during sermons. He had overheads with the main points, many of us would have notebooks where we took notes.

It is nice to see the power of God's Word working in Calvary Chapel.

Marv

[Mr. 5020]

This thread died a horrible death. :(

[calidog]

Hey guys just wanted to say that does any 1 have the Chuck Smith Mp3 set it rocks all about the word
yes. way good stuff.

[calidog]

Calvary chapel says it is non deomoniational, but if you read Chuck Smith's book "Calvary Chapel Distinctives" you start to see that it is a demoniation that takes a centerist viewpoint of everything. I love my CC
I like that--centerist--never heard of that one. I've been a literalist for some time, but centerist sounds like being worth trying on:)

[malckiah]

Hello, Praise Jesus! :wave:

[Artificial Intelligence]

:)

[Mr. 5020]

I like that--centerist--never heard of that one. I've been a literalist for some time, but centerist sounds like being worth trying on:)It is worth it.

To quote Chuck Smith, it is the balance between Baptists and Pentecostals.

[calidog]

I C

My guess was that he taught the word as though the word was centered on Christ.

thanks

I'll have to think about that one.

[MyHeart07]

Hi

:wave: