Calvary Chapel Distinctives

Calvary Chapel Distinctives Paper
The Sociological Cycle of Church Growth

First off I just want to say that this paper was very challenging for me to write. I’ve grown up all my life in a Baptist church and haven’t had any Calvary Chapel experiences or prior knowledge. My church doesn’t fit into the description of the Baptist Bible Fellowship, which is a good thing I take it, but it is still very different from the Calvary Chapel way. I understand that this class’s function is for me to gain knowledge on how Calvary Chapel runs and their basic beliefs & doctrine and it is doing a great job at that. I had to really wring out the facts from this paper and extract all the data I could, but I was able to do it. Just from a teaching standpoint, I know that other Calvary Chapel “Lifers” will be able to pull much more out of a paper like this and I trust that you realize that. Here goes nothing.
I generally found that as I went through the paper, Calvary Chapel has a lo...