All Souls’ Episcopal Church

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Website: http://www.all-souls.com/

Church Review
Theology: 2/5
Mission: 2/5
Community: 3/5
Worship: 2/5

Summary: All Souls’ Episcopal Church has a progressive interpretation of scripture. Their interpretations of issues (abortion, homosexuality, etc.) are not rooted in the Bible but have changed because the culture has changed. The gospel message has become a social gospel that leads them to do many good things, but they do not teach that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. The result is Christianity becomes more of a philosophy rather than a belief that God is not silent and has, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, communicated to us through the Bible.

A church not rooted in orthodoxy. We do not recommend people attend this church.

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San Diego Christian Reformed Church

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Website: http://www.sdcrc.org

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Theology: 5/5
Mission: 4/5
Community: 4/5
Worship: 3/5

Summary: San Diego Reformed Church is a solid church for people to consider. The service I attended had a guest preacher, who did an excellent job. Their worship style was more hymnal-based singing and traditional in flavor. There seems to be a transition at this church toward a more missional mindset to reach out the the community around them. (Being missional is often a challenge in Reformed churches.) The service had a large number of older (60 to 80 year old) people but there were several families as well.

A good church that teaches the Scripture and desires to reach out to their community. We recommend this church.

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Faith Community Church by the Sea

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Website: http://www.faithcommunity.ws

Encinitas

Church Review
Theology: 4/5
Mission: 4/5
Community: 4/5
Worship: 3/5

Summary: The service I attended was called a ‘mini-service’ at 8:45am (their main service is at 10am) for people who server. Doug Baker did a great job preaching through the word and tying in the history and context of the passage. Faith Community is in the process of building a church campus and is raising money to do this. At the present time, they meet in a school. There were many things I liked about my experience at the church and based on the interaction and conversations, I would recommend this as a place for people to attend. (Their website is another subject though, clicking on ‘Calendar of Events’ almost shut my computer down.)

A solid church that taught from the scripture and has a heart to reach the community around them. We recommend this church.

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Sonrise Community Church (Unite Service)

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Website: http://www.sonrise.net/

Church Review
Theology: 2/5
Mission: 2/5
Community: 3/5
Worship: 3/5

Summary: I attended Sonrise Community Church’s Unite service. An evening ‘postmodern’ service for people aged 18-30 years old. What struck me the most at this service was the preaching. In the service I attended, the pastor spent most of the time speaking about himself. He talked about his job as a news anchor, how he now gets paid well to work part time at Channel 8. He talked about how he “closed the deal” in evangelizing a Budhhist. (I’m glad he is evangelizing but part of this should be done in love not to ‘close the deal’.) Over half the message with about him.

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Dignity (Catholic) San Diego Chapter

Website: http://www.dignitypacific.org/SanDiego/

Church Review
Scriptural View: 1/5
Beliefs: 1/5
Community: 4/5

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Site Usabilility: 3/5
Site Design: 3/5
Site Content: 3/5

Summary: DignityUSA is the oldest and largest national lay movement of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Catholics. The primary goal of this group is to change the position of the Roman Catholic Church towards the GLBT community.

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Ethnos Church

Website: http://www.ethnos.us/

(University Town Center)

Church Review
Scriptural View: 4/5
Missional View: 5/5
Community: 5/5

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Site Usabilility: 4/5
Site Design: 4/5
Site Content: 3/5

Summary: Ethnos is a new church (2 years old) in the University Town Center area. Ethnos (like the name implies) is a community that reflects a vast cultural diversity. Ethnos has made an identity for itself as a place of multi-cultural worship, mult-language service, and a broader reflection of diversity, something most churches lack today.

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