Website: http://www.sdmaranatha.org

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

Website Review
Site Usabilility: 3/5
Site Design: 2/5
Site Content: 2/5

Summary: Maranatha is a common church name (meaning ‘the Lord is coming’). This Maranath church is a Seventh Day Adventist Church. There are several distinctions that Seventh Day Adventists’ hold to that Christians should be aware of prior to selecting this church. The most obvious being that the churches meet on Saturday.

A couple change notes were requested:

Kaleo Church (Highly Recommended) moved to Mission Valley AMC Theaters.
San Diego Church (Recommended) moved to Dave & Busters.
The Resolved (Highly Recommended) is looking to move from a house to a building if anyone has an extra building in Pacific Beach. (Note August 12: The Resolved found a building to meet in, visit their website to get directions.)

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Website: http://www.thirddaychurches.com

(House Churches Multiple Locations)

Church Review
Scriptural View: 3/5
Missional View: 4/5
Community: 5/5

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

Summary: The Third Day Church movement is a Charismatic house church movement that began here in San Diego and is now in eight countries. Here is an excerpt from their website about this movement:

On several occasions, history has provided the needed critical mass and the synergistic inertia to thrust the church into breaking out of its’ box and becoming the force in culture and society that God intended it to be. Today, the church, at the dawning of the 21st Century, has once again reached this “critical mass.” It’s something so big and so obvious that the winds of change demand we look hard at our forms and face the reality that a different church must provide a different response to a postmodern age. This Third Millennium (“a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day,” 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:4), or this “Third Day” requires a “Third Way” of doing and being the church, even a third Reformation.

There are a lot of things that this church is doing that San Diego Church Reviews agrees with. They are highly missional, they desire to remove traditions that impede on the advance of the gospel and the active involvement of all people in the church to ‘be the church’ not just attend one. There are two primary areas of concern about Third Day Churches; staying within the bounds of Scripture and the belief of modern day prophecy. The home churches offer a place that is “free for people to do whatever they want” which can be liberating but also can lead to unbiblical practice. Second, the belief that a person can prophesy and ‘speak for God’ is dangerous. Third Day offers Schools of Prophecy to help train people to use this gift which we believe is no longer necessary with the completion of the Apostolic period. Unfortunately, to truly know how Third Day conducts themself, someone would need to attend their church for a season to ‘test the spirits’ that are being used.

A facinating house church movement. This Church is not recommended for everyone and we offer a word of caution for people to investigate their practices before joining.

Website: http://www.theresolved.com

(Bay Park)

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

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

Summary: The Resolved is a church plant affiliated with the Acts 29 church-planting network which adheres to a Reformed tradition but also highly values the individual aspects of each community it shares the Gospel with. In line with this standard, The Resolved Church holds a high value of Scripture and strives to provide responsible teaching and at the same time contextualize it within the culture of San Diego. Pastor Duane Smets has several years of experience as both a student of theology and an evangelical preacher, which he puts to good use in leading the congregation of The Resolved toward its goals of developing a solid understanding of Scripture as well as a strong relationship with people of the city.

The plant has its roots in a Pacific Beach apartment in 2005, since then it has grown and now meets in central San Diego on Sundays. The core members of the congregation live and and commute from many different areas of the city, welcoming and connecting with visitors from all ages and backgrounds. On a given Sunday The Resolved puts on a low-key morning service featuring a thoroughly exegetical sermon, time spent in musical worship, as well as weekly serving of Communion. In addition to weekly worship services, The Resolved has community groups which meet during the week throughout the city, holds seasonal classes, a membership course and an ongoing process of leadership development. Various members of The Resolved also regularly organize and host different activities such as lunches, movies, game nights, a “Theology on Tap,” as well as the occasional opportunities for community service and evangelism.

The Resolved also strives to engage the city of San Diego and beyond through making use of the internet and the tools it provides. The church has a website full of information and resources that are valuable for regular members as well as curious seekers. Sermons are available to read and/or listen to through a sermon database as well as a weekly podcast after they are given. In addition, The Resolved makes use of a weekly news-mailer to provide extra leadership and guidance through regular pastoral journal/blog entries. The website does everything it needs in order to address the same mission as the members of the congregation: to make the Gospel and a community built around it as accessible as possible.”

A highly recommended church that holds to excellent theological and missiological positions.

Website: http://www.saintgregorythegreat.org/

Church Review
Scriptural View: 3/5
Missional View: 3/5
Community: 3/5

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

Summary: A Catholic community that professes to be more ‘orthodox’ than many Catholic Churches. Suggest you examine this chart of difference between Catholics & Protestants.

A large, active Catholic parish.

After learning more about the church from the Senior Pastor, their review has been updated: New San Diego First Assembly review.