Calvary Nexus just hosted a luncheon called a Connection Gathering attended by 89 leaders from Calvary Chapel and other like-minded evangelical churches from Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara Counties. The purposes were bridge building and learning how to better create a disciple-making culture. I would like to share the nature of the event as a potential […]
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From the very beginning of Christianity the disciples of Jesus gathered for worship, prayer, community, evangelism, and the reading and teaching of God’s Word. It could be said that all Christians through all ages practice these things, but different groups place different emphasis on the individual parts. In the Calvary Chapel family of pastors and
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While reflecting on Romans 6:1-14—a passage worth revisiting regularly—I found a profound answer to the problem of sin: the transforming power of grace. Paul begins with a rhetorical question, “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?” (Romans 6:1). He immediately refutes this misunderstanding: “By no means!” (6:2). For Paul, grace isn’t
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