San Diego Church Reviews & Guide

Website: http://www.faithpresbyterianchurch.org

Church Review
Scriptural View: 2/5
Beliefs: 2/5
Community: 3/5

Website Review
Site Usabilility: 2/5
Site Design: 2/5
Site Content: 2/5

Summary: There are a lot of things that are to be praised at Faith Presbyterian. They have a high view of loving people and reaching out to many groups that have been abandoned by the church including the homeless, needy, homosexuals and more. Further, they take worldwide social justice seriously. From what I saw, they have an ongoing campaign to write letters on behalf of the oppressed in nations around the world such as China or Sudan.

Service is traditional, with hymns and a choir. The sermon I attended was based on Scripture. Of course the sermon did not dive too deep into the text but mainly focused on broad themes. If this is how the preaching is done typically, it would be difficult to grow in your understanding of the Bible.

The PCUSA denomination is in a struggle over the role of homosexuals in the church. The Faith Presbyterian church is accepting of homosexuality and does not interpret the Bible to be literal. This means there are many issues that will greatly suffer because the Bible can become just a philosophy to guide people.

Faith Presbyterian is a liberal church in a denomination examining how to interpret the Bible on different cultural issues. Based on our standards of the Bible being true, we cannot recommend this church.

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San Diego Church Review & Guide is made up of several individuals who believe it is extremely important for non-christians, new believers and mature believers to find a church that is centered on the Bible. Amongst the reviewers we have several pastors, the editor of San Diego Christianity DMOZ, people with Masters in Theology and more.

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(2) Further, San Diego Churches is not unbiased. Frankly, no one is unbiased. We all have a particular viewpoint in which we decide to value things by. So all applicants will be asked a few questions to help understand these biases. A few biases in which we evaluate churches by.

a) Does the Church believe scripture is true?
b) How do they interpret Scripture?
c) Does the church have a heart of mission both locally, culturally and worldwide?
d) Does the church desire to glorify God and worship Him, rather than people?
e) Does the church have a community that lives out an active involvement and desire to disciple/hold people accountable and grow them?

These areas are the areas in which we value churches. Some people may not agree with these. We would encourage you to add your comments under the churches in which you disagree. We also would encourage you to start your own website to review churches based on the standards you see fit. We recognize some people may be upset with reviews of particular churches. Our desire is not to make people upset but to pursue God and hopefully, the Pastors of these churches will prayerfully consider any areas that are evaluated as settling for less than the Glory of God.

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A church that is not missional is not really a church. A church exists by mission as the sun exists by burning. When the sun loses its burn it ceases to be the sun. When a church loses its mission, it ceases to be a church. Missional is an adjective describing all of the activities of the church body as they are brought under the mission of God (missio dei) to bring salvation through His Son Jesus Christ.

Jesus said, “The world has hated them [My followers] because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You [God] should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one…As You [God] sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world” (John 17:14-16, 18; emphasis added).

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