Website: http://www.escondidourc.org/

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

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

Summary: Escondido United Reformed Church (EURC) is an excellent place to learn about the Christian faith. The church has a high view of scripture and preaches solid, Biblical messages each week. If you seek or currently are in need to find a church that teaches ‘meat’ rather than watered-down messages, this is the place for you. As we find with most Reformed churches is that they often lack in the area of cultural engagement. Many in this church attend because they were raised in a Reformed environment so the learning curve is not always easy for new believers, but I trust they will pour into anyone who decides to attend the church. EURC is a great place for families. They put a strong emphasis on training the children in the Bible as well. (This church is Presbyterian for those concerned about Baby baptism.)

A recommended, Bible-based church.

Many people who come to this site seek a Catholic church. Our primary thrust is to review San Diego Churches that are Protestants, but we do Catholic churches on occassion as well as other off the beaten path faiths.

For those of you looking for a Catholic Church in San Diego, here is a (offsite) list of Catholic Parish/Mission Websites in the Diocese of San Diego. We also reviewed one Old Catholic church you can check out: St. Francis and St. Taricicus Old Catholic Church

Website: http://www.gotograce.org

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

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

Summary: Grace church is a community church in the Mira Mesa area. They are looking to involve the neighborhood in the life of the church and seek to reach out to them. Grace has a great missional heart as well as preaches Bible-based sermons. Their pastor strives to have people live out their faith in an authentic way.

We recommend this church as a great community as well as a people who want to live out their faith.

Website: http://www.www.apostolicpower.org

Church Review
Scriptural View: 1/5
Missional View: 3/5
Community: 3/5

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

Summary: The Apostolic Church believes Christians are wrong. The Apostolic movement says the Trinity (One God in Three – Father, Son & Holy Spirit) is a false teaching. They are modalists.

(Modalism) is a denial of the Trinity which states that God is a single person who, throughout biblical history, has revealed Himself in three consecutive modes, or forms. Thus, God is a single person who first manifested himself in the mode of the Father in Old Testament times. At the incarnation, the mode was the Son. After Jesus’ ascension, the mode is the Holy Spirit. These modes are consecutive and never simultaneous. In other words, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit never all exist at the same time, only one after another. Modalism denies the distinctiveness of the three persons in the Trinity even though it retains the divinity of Christ.

Present day groups that hold to this error are the United Pentecostal and United Apostolic Churches. They deny the Trinity, teach that the name of God is Jesus, and require baptism for salvation. These modalist churches often accuse Trinitarians of teaching three gods. This is not what the Trinity is. The correct teaching of the Trinity is one God in three eternal coexistent persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Source: CARM)

For a larger and more in-depth work on this matter, I’d recommend The Trinity – Evidences & Issues by Dr. Bob Morey.

The second error the Apostolic Church holds is one that baptism ‘in Jesus name’ is necessary for salvation. This error negates that baptism is an outward sign or expression of what has taken place inwardly. I would recommend you read, Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation?

With so many theological errors, we recommend people avoid North Park Apostolic Church.

Website: http://www.mcrs.org

Church Review
Scriptural View: 0/5
Missional View: 1/5
Community: 2/5

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

Summary: Midtown Church is a Religious Science church. Our desire to review them is that people know this so they don’t show up thinking they are Christian. Midtown teaches openness to all faiths, universalism and that Jesus Christ was not God.

Not a Christian Church.

Website: http://www.calvarychapel.com/pointloma/

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

Website Review
Site Usabilility: 4/5
Site Design: 2/5
Site Content: 2/5

Summary: Point Loma Calvary Chapel is a smaller Calvary church in the San Diego area. The good news is that the church preaches expositionally, or verse-by-verse through the Bible. This is highly commendable. The downside was the service I attended offered very little in the way of actual explanation or insight into the text. The sermon was filled with stories and cliche’s that offered little relevance to the actual sermon. I have attended other Calvary’s and been impressed with the teaching but Point Loma Calvary was not one of them.

A Calvary church that didn’t dive into the meat of the text.