Is Calvary Different?

What does all of this Millennium stuff matter anyway? Isn't this BLOG supposed to be about Calvary Chapel?

Calvary Chapel has long been centered around a particular and narrow view of end times events, stated as:

We believe in the personal, visible, and pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth.

Yet at the same time, Calvary Chapel has long had a tenant that

We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed to denominations as such, only to their over-emphasis of the doctrinal differences that have led to the division of the Body of Christ.

Yet, isn't this exactly what has happened? Not the denominational question, but the basic issue of whether or not Calvary Chapel's "distinctives" have "led to a division of the Body of Christ". If you change your views on the end times from the standard party line you will be cast out of Calvary Chapel. Isn't that exactly what they claim to be against?

Does Calvary Chapel overemphasize doctrinal differences when it comes to end times? Of course they do, and they do it constantly. Whether or not they are a denomination depends largely upon your definition of denomination. Smith's definition appears to be a cohesive group with different views than his. Doesn't Scripture tell us that God hates differing weights and measures?