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  • My wife and I have decided to seek out a church closer to home as we've been driving 25 miles each way to a church in Chandler since we got married 6 1/2 years ago. This morning we attended Gateway Church, which is about a mile from our house. I'll go straight to why I'm rating the church 1-star. The 35-minute sermon was inconsistent and lacking in a Biblical message. The sermon started out saying it was about a passage in the book of Nehemiah. And for about a minute Pastor Brad Larson talked about the book of Nehemiah. But never during the remaining sermon did he ever return to the book of Nehemiah or relate anything back to it. The sermon ended up being what I'd classify as a somewhat secular motivational speech, peppered with random Bible verses from all over the Bible that didn't really fit. It's like the random Bible verses were forced into the message to attempt to give the overall message some scriptural legitimacy. It was just a very convoluted message where the Bible wasn't the center of the message. We left the service thinking it was more of an "experience" than "worship." When we got home, I went to the Church's website to read more about the church and about Pastor Larson. As his biography on the church's website didn't say a lot, I went to Google and discovered that he has no theological education and no seminary degrees. His time in college was spent studying Business Administration and until recently his career was with GoDaddy as an account executive. Google searches also show allegations of impropriety while with GoDaddy. Pastor Larson is a great public speaker and obviously has great skills as a motivational speaker, but we're uncomfortable with his lack of Biblical training and lack of seminary education. In seeking a church, we believe a church should be founded on the Bible, with pastors who have been trained in seminary to understand and teach the Bible. The church website likes to describe itself as "spirit filled," but we'd rather find a church that is Biblically grounded. Update: Since leaving this review, I've been attacked by anonymous members of this church.
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