Calvary Chapel Murfreesboro

Philip Frensley

Pastor
Calvary Chapel
Church office:
229 River Rock Blvd.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
E-mail us: mail@ccmboro.com

CALVARY CHAPEL...simple church

OUR BEGINNING

The Lord called out pastor to begin this new work completely by faith in 1997. We began with 3 couples, 10 folding chairs and a simple vision... to be the best fed and most loved church in our community.

At Calvary Chapel we do not have an endless menu of programs, ministries, and meetings that all promise to change your life but actually run you to death. In fact, we have two weekly options (Sunday morning and/or Thursday night) with four basic elements in each.

BASIC ELEMENTS
• 1. Prayer-we pray for our meetings and the other churches meeting nearby. We pray as we are led by the Spirit. We pray for God's armor and protection. We pray for a greater burden for the lost. We pray for our missionaries. We pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We pray for our sick. We pray for our prodigals. We pray until the burden is lifted. We pray about church purchases. We pray.

• 2. Worship -we are the choir and the Lord is the audience. We sing ancient hymns and modern choruses that lyrically exalt the Lord. Since we believe any practice, behavior, or individual that would distract people from focusing on the Lord during worship is in danger of robbing God of His glory, our worship is less extravagant than some prefer.

• 3. Bible study-we simply teach the Word simply. Using the Nehemiah 8:8 method. "So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave sense, and helped them to understand the reading." We teach verse-by-verse through the entire Bible from cover-to-cover in about 8 years. On Sundays, we cover one chapter in the New Testament. On Thursdays we cover two chapters in the Old Testament. Come on Sundays and you will eventually learn the entire New Testament. Come on Thursdays and you will learn the Old Testament- or both, and in 8 years you will have studied all 66 books. By the time we've finished teaching the "whole counsel of God.", we're ready to start again.

• 4. The Lord's Supper-we do not take the Lord's Supper to remember our sins but to remember our Savior. The Lord's Supper reminds us that Christ died for past, present, and future sins. To "proclaim the Lord's death" is to announce and remind everyone of the power of the Cross. The Lord's Supper keeps us from spiritual sleep-walking. We remember Jesus' death, examine our lives, and re-surrender everything since He is coming back soon!

  SIMPLE...AND IT WORKS ANY PLACE ON THE PLANET.

  Many churches practice some of these elements. We haven't reinvented "church" we simply practice all 4 in both weekly meetings with no other programs to speak of.

  There is nothing wrong with all the EXTRA CHURCH ACTIVITY but the ability to SIMPLIFY means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  OUR NECESSARY;

  • We financially support our pastor and his family full time.
  • We provide financial assistance to those in need in our church family.
  • We support Greenhouse Ministries, which provides benevolent help to our community.
  • We support 7 missionaries full time in India, 1 in Peru, and 1 in Thailand.
  • We support 2 pastors and their families in China now disabled by persecution.
  • 1900 people hear the gospel each month for the first time through our Jesus Film contributions.
  • Of these, about 190 repent of their sins and accept Christ as Lord and Saviour each month.
  • We mail 5000 evangelistic tracts in Rutherford County/Murfreesboro each month.
  • 13,000 people listen to our radio broadcast, "66 Books" on AM 1450 Sundays at 7:15 PM.

  OUR ONE THING: The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and transforms the People of God (you should read that again!).

  * A church that emphasizes the Word without the Spirit dries up.

  * A church that emphasizes the Spirit without the Word blows up

  * A church that emphasizes the Word and the Spirit grows up.

  SIMPLE CHILDCARE PHILOSOPHY-

  We have baby/toddler care during both meeting because it would be wrong to make these little ones sit still and remain quiet for this amount of time. However, once a child is old enough to sit still and remain quiet in a school setting we believe they should be in our meeting with their parent(s). Why? Children are influenced by what is modeled front of them by their parent(s). We believe families should attend church meetings together. They need to see you pray, worship, study through the Bible, and observe the Lord's Supper.

  To view our church distinctives, click here.

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