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Dispensationalism and Historicism in Eschatology

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In recent years I have been going through a theological journey and have been deeply studying the questionable issues in Dispensationalism and Historicism views of eschatology. My own ministerial education has been in the Historicism school of eschatology but I have not been one to make an issue of those who hold to a Dispensationalism school of thought. For some reason I haven’t ran into pre-trib people ridiculing post-trib people, it has always been the … Continue reading →

Our Beginnings

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Our church fellowship began on January 6, 2011, meeting on Sunday morning at a community room of a Ryan’s Restaurant on Rangeline Road near I-10 in Tillman’s Corner, Alabama. The manager allowed us to use the room at no cost if we ordered their buffet breakfast, which we did and enjoyed, but after several weeks we all seemed to have gotten our fill of that buffet. We moved our meetings to my house in West Mobile, … Continue reading →

CGN vs CCA?

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CrossHope Chapel is part of the Calvary Global Network, but not the Calvary Chapel Association. We are not opposed to the CCA, we were actually hoping to affiliate with the CCA when the split happened in 2016. As the split began to play out we decided to sign-up with the CGN and found ourselves out of communication with the CCA. I want to explain the difference for our fellowship, between the CGN and the CCA, … Continue reading →

Calvary Chapel Split

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My connection with Calvary Chapel happened by accident in 2014 while doing a trade name search when changing our church name from West Mobile Bible Fellowship to CrossHope Chapel. In our search, the name Calvary Chapel came up and my memory immediately tied that name to Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. As a new believer in Jesus Christ in 1980 I would cling to every broadcast of Chuck Smith on Christian radio in … Continue reading →