Comments on: Why I Left Calvary Chapel: Introduction http://www.modernpulpit.com/2009/04/04/why-i-left-calvary-chapel-introduction/ The modern pulpit from a reforming layman's perspective Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:56:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rayla http://www.modernpulpit.com/2009/04/04/why-i-left-calvary-chapel-introduction/#comment-996 Rayla Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:41:40 +0000 http://www.thlibo.com/2009/04/04/why-i-left-calvary-chapel-introduction/#comment-996 I left Calvary Chapel and Protestantism and converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. I agree with the comment from a poster here about CC's obsession about the end-times. Year after year of it just depressed the heck out of me. Of course, that's not the reason I converted. It's all of Protestantism that's off, not just CC. I wanted to be a member of the church with the faith and TRADITION that was handed down to the Apostles. Orthodoxy is the faith that has not changed in a significant way in almost 2000 years. There is a book called Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells by Matthew Gallatin, a former CC pastor. This book rocked my world and got me seriously questioning all my religious suppositions. I left Calvary Chapel and Protestantism and converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. I agree with the comment from a poster here about CC’s obsession about the end-times. Year after year of it just depressed the heck out of me. Of course, that’s not the reason I converted. It’s all of Protestantism that’s off, not just CC. I wanted to be a member of the church with the faith and TRADITION that was handed down to the Apostles. Orthodoxy is the faith that has not changed in a significant way in almost 2000 years. There is a book called Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells by Matthew Gallatin, a former CC pastor. This book rocked my world and got me seriously questioning all my religious suppositions.

]]> By: John Doe http://www.modernpulpit.com/2009/04/04/why-i-left-calvary-chapel-introduction/#comment-817 John Doe Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:06:25 +0000 http://www.thlibo.com/2009/04/04/why-i-left-calvary-chapel-introduction/#comment-817 Hi Randy, I find your articles very interesting. I have attended a CC church for the last 5 years. Iv been to a lot of CC's in California and spent a lot of time in "Coasta Mecca". I also attended a CC Bible College for a semester (and later found out I couldnt graduate unless I agreed with dispensationalism). This was all in my late teens (im in my early 20's now). I agree totally with you about the Calvary obsession with the rapture and end times. I hold to the Amill view but I have still chosen to stick with my church. My Pastor has a great heart for the city and I really respect that. That is one of the reasons I chose the church. He follows a christocentric teaching of the bible rather than the usual Calvary "rapturecentric" teaching and for those two reasons I have chosen to stay. Hi Randy,

I find your articles very interesting. I have attended a CC church for the last 5 years. Iv been to a lot of CC’s in California and spent a lot of time in “Coasta Mecca”. I also attended a CC Bible College for a semester (and later found out I couldnt graduate unless I agreed with dispensationalism). This was all in my late teens (im in my early 20’s now). I agree totally with you about the Calvary obsession with the rapture and end times. I hold to the Amill view but I have still chosen to stick with my church. My Pastor has a great heart for the city and I really respect that. That is one of the reasons I chose the church. He follows a christocentric teaching of the bible rather than the usual Calvary “rapturecentric” teaching and for those two reasons I have chosen to stay.

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