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I agree, the Calvary Chapel is a wonderful church ! Never been to that one in Costa Mesa, but have fellowship in their sister churches !!
They are definitely a bible teaching church and have always found the people who fellowship in the Calvary Chapel to be a wonderful, loving group of Christians !!!
I have a Calvary Church down the block and two years ago the pastor (who drives a harley...kudos to him) sided with the wife in a divorce and the man (unable to see his children) was banned from the church... the next sunday he showed up early and shot himself in the head in the parking lot.
IMO all pastors have control issues and some take that way too far. This could have been prevented if the pastor had had any compassion at all but the husband was declared a sinner and "excommunicated" so to speak.... sad very sad.
Come to find out the wife was making the divorce a living hell and the kids were smack in the middle. Now they don't have a Dad...
I have a Calvary Church down the block and two years ago the pastor (who drives a harley...kudos to him) sided with the wife in a divorce and the man (unable to see his children) was banned from the church... the next sunday he showed up early and shot himself in the head in the parking lot.
IMO all pastors have control issues and some take that way too far. This could have been prevented if the pastor had had any compassion at all but the husband was declared a sinner and "excommunicated" so to speak.... sad very sad.
Come to find out the wife was making the divorce a living hell and the kids were smack in the middle. Now they don't have a Dad...
Calvary Chapel [Costa Mesa associated] is a good place to fellowship.Too bad for the man, the wife, the children, and the whole Church community there, but the Pastor is not the courts, where these issues are settled these days -no matter if he was in fellowship with Calvary Chapel [Costa Mesa] or another organization.
This is definately what we have come to realize over this time.
I was raised baptist, until around 6th grade when my mom and step-dad got married, then it was COC until I graduated. Honestly, I never liked it there in the first place and didn't put in the time to try to find the truth. Something seemed off about it. I couldn't ever put my finger on it, and now that I have really put in the time to read the Bible and realize that it's not what I am reading it should be.
I know that giving up that time for my mother to see the kids is going to be hard for her, but we as a family need to be somewhere where we can truely grow in our faith. (I wish there was a way to help her out aswell. She is baptist but will not do anything (i.e. go elsewhere) because of my step-dad...)
When I met my husband he was at a Non-denominational church(As a foster child, he had been to many different kinds of churches and learned a lot from each). We loved this place, but once we moved it was just too far...in another state...to drive to. Everyone was loving, giving, concerned for one another, and did things as I have come to believe they should be done. I truely felt welcome there.
I want to find the church for us. One that will not teach my children that their mom and dad are not saved or that we should sell our car because we do not give enough to the plate on Sunday morning.
God Bless,
April
There is a way (the only way) to find "The Church"...follow what your heart dictates and you will find it...
"LOVE GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF"
May The Spirit of God guide your journey to his "TRUTH".
I have a daughter born April 3. Is that your B-day too?
Nope. Mine is May 23. My name is April because my mother was supposed to have had me in April..lol.. but I came a month late!
The 3 is for my 3 babies!
There is a way (the only way) to find "The Church"...follow what your heart dictates and you will find it...
"LOVE GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF"
May The Spirit of God guide your journey to his "TRUTH".
Thank you. I believe we are on our way to finding "the Church" that we belong in.
God Bless,
~April
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I agree, the Calvary Chapel is a wonderful church ! Never been to that one in Costa Mesa, but have fellowship in their sister churches !! 
Everyone was loving, giving, concerned for one another, and did things as I have come to believe they should be done. I truely felt welcome there. 
