英文
We
believe
"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 Christ's
agape love, which is greater than
any differences we possess, and
without which we have no right to claim
ourselves Christians.
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.
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We
believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
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 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 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 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.
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"While Calvary Chapel West Tokyo
holds to these beliefs, we welcome any
believer in the Lord Jesus Christ
who has a sincere desire to grow
closer to Jesus. Our desire is to share in
the fellowship of Christ in
a way that brings glory to God, avoiding
division, and to share in His
Agape love."
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