and His righteousness....
Matthew 6:33
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Our
Calvary Chapel Teams
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Welcome to Calvary Chapel Idaho Falls
On behalf of our entire church family we would like to welcome you to
Calvary Chapel. Since most people have such varied church backgrounds,
we hope to answer some questions you may have about our church on this
Web site.
Our primary goals are as follows:
- As a church family,
our goal for activities is patterned after the simple program of
the first Christians. In Acts 2:42 we are told they "continued
steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine [teaching] and fellowship,
in the breaking of bread, and in prayers."
- Our goal for activities
outside the church is centered upon Christ's commission that as
a result of the empowering of the Holy Spirit, we will be "witnesses
to Me [Jesus] in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
- Our goal as individuals
is to emphasize a life of deepening intimacy with Jesus Christ.
As the Apostle Paul prayed, "to know the love of Christ; that
you may be filled with all the fullness of God" (Ephesians
3:19). To thereby be able to live out in practical terms a life
that is "beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, we
are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory,
just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:18). Overarching
these three goals is a sincere desire in and by God's grace to do
all because of love, knowing that whatever we do without love "profits
nothing" (1 Corinthians 13:1-3).
One other thing we would like you to know is that none of these things are being done perfectly. In a world where promises and words often outdistance reality, we are happy to admit we are moving forward but certainly have not arrived.
We trust and pray that God's grace and love through Jesus Christ will be your ever-growing experience.
Joyfully serving
Christ,
Servant leader's team