Calvary of Pace seeks to declare the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27) believing that the best program to achieve this is a systematic study of the entire Bible in an expositional manner.
Calvary of Pace looks to the New Testament book of Acts as the divine model for the Church. We don’t look to church history or movements, but rather to the Word of God.
Calvary of Pace has a basic form of leadership that is modeled after the theocracy of Israel as well as the insights of leadership in the New Testament. We believe the Pastor is to lead the church is directed by the Holy Spirit with Elders coming alongside directing the affairs of the church (1 Timothy 5:17).
Calvary of Pace recognizes the experience of the empowering work of the Holy Spirit as distinct and usually separate from the indwelling of the Spirit, which occurs at the point of salvation.
Calvary of Pace practices a relaxed, casual style of ministry (although there’s nothing casual about our faith in Christ.) We do not allow spiritual hype to motivate people, but rely on the teaching of God’s Word coupled with the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We teach the Word and trust the Lord to add such as should be saved.
Calvary of Pace places a large emphasis on God’s grace recognizing that we are saved by grace and stand in grace.
Calvary of Pace emphasizes the centrality of Jesus Christ in all things. He is the reason we meet and the One Whom we serve. We seek to eliminate anything that places undo focus on anyone or anything but Christ.
Calvary of Pace is solidly pre-tribulational and pre-millennial in our eschatology.
Calvary of Pace believes in a balance between the biblical concepts of God’s Sovereign election and man’s responsibility.
Calvary of Pace believes in the supremacy of love without which all the gifts of the Spirit are useless.
Calvary of Pace believes in taking ventures of faith.
…that the Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21).
…there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Distinguishable but indivisible (Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2).
…the full deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ; in His virgin birth and sinless life; in His complete and finished work on the cross and His bodily resurrection from the dead (Luke 1:26-35; Hebrews 2:14-15; 9:12; 10:11-12; John 1:12).
…that the only means by which we can be forgiven of our sins is to personally accept the death of Jesus Christ as payment for our own penalty, and to receive Him as Savior and Lord. Further, we believe that anyone who believes and accepts Christ as Savior becomes the recipient of God’s Holy Spirit, by which he/she is born again
(John 3:3-9; 20:22; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8-9).
…water baptism by immersion not for salvation but because of salvation-to fulfill the command of Christ (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:34-36).
…there is a work of the Holy Spirit separate from the regenerative work, which enables the believer to enter into a new and powerful realm of service, praise, worship, personal edification and witnessing (Acts 1:8, 2:4, 10:44-46, 19:2-6).
…the operation of the gifts of the Spirit as manifested in the early Church and recorded in the book of Acts and various letters of the New Testament (1 Corinthians 12:1-14).
…there is found in Christ healing for the broken physically, spiritually and emotionally (Psalms 103:3’ 147:3; Luke 9:42; James 5:14-15).
…the Church is the Bride of Christ, and will be translated (raptured) to meet the Lord in the air (this includes believers who have died in Christ as well as those living on the earth at that time). We believe the Church will be hidden with Christ during the Great Tribulation which will come upon the whole earth and then return with Him after that time in what the Bible refers to as “the Second Coming.”
We believe in the thousand-year reign of Christ upon the earth, the final resurrection and judgment, eternal life for believers and eternal punishment for unbelievers (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:2-6; John 3:36).
…the Church is the Body of Christ on the earth and God’s chosen instrument to proclaim the Gospel of Christ, and be a restraint to sin. By this statement, we proclaim our alliance with and prayerful support of every Bible believing, Christ honoring fellowship worldwide (Matthew 16:18, 5:13-14; John 13:35).
WE BELIEVE in a literal Heaven and a literal Hell and that all those who place their faith, hope and trust in Jesus Christ will spend eternity in Heaven with the Lord, while those who reject Jesus’ free gift of salvation will spend eternity separated from the Lord (Psalm 9:17; Matthew 5:3, 5:22, 18:9 and 25:31-34; Mark 9:42-49; Luke 12:5; John 3:18; Hebrews 12:23; 1 Peter 1:4; Revelation 14:10-11 and 20:11-15).
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