Calvary Fellowship Of Ottawa

Martin Luther King Jr said that Sunday morning was the most segregated hour of the week in America... it still is for the most part. But another type of segregation has existed in the church for a long time—it even plagued Jesus and led to His arrest and death. When self-righteous religiosity shuts out those who are considered to be in the margins of society. The Jesus Movement of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was noted for hippies who responded to the gospel and started coming to the church. This was true at the beginning of Calvary Chapel. We were not part of the established churches. It was a time of revival and change. But the Jesus Movement was greater than the hippies. It saw religious people learn to embrace the irreligious and unchurched with the love and grace of God. This needs to happen again, especially since we, the Calvary Chapel Movement of churches, have become the establishment! In Luke 7:36-50, we read the story of a sinful woman who invades the inner circle of religious elites, the Pharisee