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About Pastor Jim Stewart |
Pastor Jim has been serving the Lord for the past 20 years. Beginning in West Covina, California at the local Calvary Chapel, his pastor, Raul Ries, encouraged him to enter the pastoral studies at the Calvary Chapel Bible School. At the completion of his training in 1989, Pastor Jim and his family moved to Joplin, Missouri where they planted Calvary Chapel of Joplin. Jim served as pastor in Joplin for nine and a half years.
Believing the Lord was leading him to relocate back to the west coast for a season, he served as assistant pastor and missions director at Calvary Chapel La Habra. After about a year, the draw back to the midwest resulted in another move back to southwest Missouri.
As Pastor Jim waited on the leading of the Lord, he helped plant another Calvary Chapel in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and served as a guest speaker for many other ministries. Since 2001, Pastor Jim has been serving as Sr. Pastor at Calvary Chapel Kansas City.
Jim's Heart for the lost has carried him to numerous places around the country and the world. He has had the privilege of helping plant several churches in Japan and has been involved in crisis situations such as the Tsunami relief in Thailand and the recent relief efforts in the Gulf Coast of the US.
On a personal note, Pastor Jim has been Married for 25 years and has three grown sons. He is a committed husband and father and is passionate about preaching the Gospel, teaching the Word, and discipling others in a personal relationship with Jesus, thus fulfilling the great commission.
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Our Vision
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We desire to REACH the lost with the love of God. We also desire to TEACH the Word of God in simplicity and truth, thereby, fulfilling the Great Commission.
~ Matthew 18:28-30
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Our Mission
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- Teaching through the Word of God line by line, verse by verse
- The empowering of the believer through baptism in the Holy Spirit
- Evangelism
- Worship
- Water Baptism
- Fellowship in the Lord
- Communion
- Prayer
- Equipping and Serving
- Send Missionaries
- Plant Churches
- Develop a Sense of Community
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We Believe
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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 as Christians |
| The worship of God should be spiritual Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship |
| The worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give a great place to music in our worship |
| The worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, church services are designed with great emphasis on teaching the Word of God that he might instruct us. |
| That the worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for his love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we truly have been worshiping Him. |
| In all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity |
| In the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, both Old and New Testaments are the inspired infallible word of God. |
| That God is eternally existent in 3 distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. |
| That God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things. |
| That Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that he was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by his substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the father, and ever lives to make intercession for us. |
| In the personal, visible, and pre-millenial 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. |
| That after Jesus ascended into Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel into the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today. |
| That all people are, by nature, separated from God and are responsible for their own sin, but that 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 their personal Savior and Lord, trusting him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord. |
| In the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are exercised within the scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We believe that love is more important than even the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is without worth. |
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