At a given time certain issues become controversial in the church. Calvary Chapel East Anaheim feels it necessary to take a stand in the following areas:

We hold to…

• the continuance today of the diversities of spiritual gifts found in l Cor. 12:4-11.
• simplicity in church government, rather than a complex bureaucracy.
• a dependence upon the Holy Spirit to lead rather than fleshly promotion.
• the pre-millennial, pre-tribulational return of Christ for His waiting church.
• the teaching of the Word of God in such a way that it can be applied to life as beneficial towards a growing maturity.

We reject…

• the teaching of “positive confession”.
• the belief that true Christians can be possessed by demons.
• “dominion theology.”
• a fatalistic Calvinistic view, which allows no room for free will.
• prophesy that supersedes Biblical revelation.
• the incorporation of humanistic psychology and philosophy into biblical teaching.
• “Charismania” (the over-emphasis upon spiritual gifts, experiential signs and wonders, etc.)
• The teaching that you must speak with tongues to be spirit filled or saved.
• The seeking after experiences not clearly taught in Scripture including being “slain in the Spirit”, “Laughing in the Spirit”, etc.
• The view that God wills all to be healed and or that sickness is always a result of personal sin. We also reject the teaching that a failure to be healed is only caused by a lack of faith.