Jim Gallagher
Calvary Chapel Vero Beach · Vero Beach, Florida
Saved at seventeen, teaching the Bible a few years later, an assisting pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa at twenty-three, and pastoring Calvary Chapel Vero Beach since 1998. He states his aim from Ephesians: that God's people grow up into the fullness of Christ.
Life
“When I was 17 years old and a senior in high school, I heard for the first time that Jesus loved me, died for me and if I would receive Him, He would give me everlasting life. I said yes, and Jesus changed my life.”
“A few years later I was given an opportunity to teach the Bible for the first time, and from that day, I knew what God had called me to do: teach others the simple truths about Jesus.”
“When I was 23, I was hired as an assisting pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa where I served in youth ministry until 1998.”
“I have been pastoring Calvary Chapel Vero Beach since 1998.”
“My heart’s desire for God’s people can be summed up in Paul’s words to the Ephesians: ‘Til we come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’ I believe that the desire of God and the purpose of the Church is to be a place where we can grow in our relationship with Christ through the study of His Word.”
Stated as his ministry states it, from Calvary Chapel Vero Beach · Pastor Jim. Nothing here is inferred.
What he teaches
Calvary Chapel has been formed as a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and to be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We believe worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
We believe worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore we give a great place to music in our worship.
We believe worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore our services are designed with great emphasis upon teaching the Word of God that He might instruct us how He should be worshiped.
We believe worship of God is fruitful. Therefore we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshiping Him.
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, authoritative, and the inerrant Word of God. (2 Tim 3:15-17; 2 Pet 1:21)
We believe there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Gen 1:1; Deut 6:4; Matt 28:19; John 10:30)
We believe in the deity of Christ; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His miracles; His vicarious and atoning death; His resurrection; His ascension to the right hand of the Father; His personal return to earth in power and glory. (John 10:33; Isa 7:14; Matt 1:23; Luke 1:34-35; Heb 4:15, 7:26; John 2:11; 1 Cor 15:3; Eph 1:7; Heb 2:9; John 11:25; 1 Cor 15:4; Mark 16:19; Acts 1:11; Rev 19:11-16)
We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of the human nature, and that all are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by God’s grace through faith alone are we saved. (John 3:16-19; John 5:24; Rom 3:23, 5:8-9; Eph 2:8-10; Titus 3:5)
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto the resurrection of life, and those who are not unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:28-29)
We believe in the spiritual unity of the believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom 8:9; 1 Cor 12:12-13; Gal 3:26-28)
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by Whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (Rom 8:13-14; 1 Cor 3:16, 6:19-20; Eph 4:30, 5:18)
We believe that we as Christians are examples of the love of God in this world. It is this love that we desire to possess and without which we have no right to call ourselves Christians. (1 John 4:16-17)
Statement of Faith, Calvary Chapel Vero Beach. Quoted, not summarised. This page applies no label to Jim Gallagher that he has not used of himself.
Teaching archive
The church’s teaching archive, with its services also carried online.
- Thru the Bible Reading. “A reading plan kept with the teaching rather than apart from it.”
- Calvary Radio. “The church’s own radio, linked from the foot of every page.”
- Sermon Prep. Video Series. “Filed under Pastor Jim: how he prepares, rather than what he preached.”
- SBS NT with Hebrew Subtitles. “Listed among the resources in the church’s own words.”
Books
- Always — publisher not stated by the source. A handbook for marriage. The church says he “took his 30+ years of experience being married and walking with Jesus and transformed it into a handbook on marriage.”
- Hearing His Voice — publisher not stated by the source. On discerning the will of God, drawn from a confusing season with a small missions team.
Where to find him
- A portrait. The church publishes no media or press terms for one.
- Publishers for the two books. The page sends readers to Amazon and names no imprint.
- The year he was born. His own account dates itself by age at conversion and at ordination, not by year.
- Where he served between 1998 and now beyond Vero Beach, and anything of his family. His testimony is about the call, not the biography.
Sources for this page are closed to Calvary Chapel Vero Beach and the Calvary Chapel Association.