First Things First

First things first, it's important to establish what Berean means.  Our church is called Berean Calvary Church, and the reason we call this church by that name is because of the Bereans mentioned in the book of Acts.  They daily checked in the scriptures to see whether or not what was being preached was correct or not.  Being correct was very important to them.  That kind of hardcore concern and love for the truth is built, first of all, out of the belief that the book they held in their hand was the perfect word of God, the scriptures.  If only the original manuscripts are the "scriptures," then the Bereans were mistaken.  They claimed to have checked the "scriptures," even though they didn't have the originals.  How did they do that?

I'm being facetious here, because it is modern Christianity since the end of the nineteenth century that claimed that only the original manuscripts could qualify as the perfect word of God, the scriptures.  Christians before that had more sense.  Just like the group in the New Testament that Paul addressed, Paul thanked God that when they heard the word of God, they received it not as the "word of men," (some reliable translation), but as it is in TRUTH, the word of God.  Apostate Christianity has taken "the scriptures" out of people's hands and replaced with a dependence on Higher Education and Christian scholarship.

So we at Berean Calvary Church first of all claim that we believe we have "the scriptures" in our hands, and we believe that to be the King James Bible.  We search it as often as possible to see whether what is being said in churches and the world is so or not.  We need to try the spirits to see whether they are of God or not.  "Truth is fallen in the streets" as the old testament says.  Today, there is a famine of hearing God's words (Amos), but at Berean Calvary Church, we preach and believe the book we read, and search it daily to see whether these things are so or not.