North Point Community Church — Attraction in Alpharetta

We went to Northpoint for about 7 years and honestly I regret it. 3 small groups, a trip to Cambodia with Global x, and I even chose to get baptized, which you are forced to do to join. This church doesn't put serving the suffering as their number one priority when it should be. Andy Stanley preaches about the recovery program No Longer Bound on the radio and then their small groups are often filled with wine tasting events. The small groups choose socials long before they go and serve the poor. I believe if you want to help the mental health of your members than you should band alcohol use at church socials. There is too much work to be done in this city then to just sit around and drink with your small group. You open yourself up to these people in small group, become vulnerable and yet when you hit a crisis they truly aren't there and don't even know what to do or they just choose to do nothing. You are entertaining the masses first, theological discussions to the endth degree and rarely read the bible in your small groups. You are not a church of people who are first taking action to help those in greatest need. You ask epileptics to leave the service... (a disease thats even in the bible) and ask them to watch the worship in another room on a tv! I know you have enough money to create a small non-strobe light acoustic worship service for the sensory sensitive. I think the mega church has destroyed our community and I look forward to the day the silver screen rolls down and Andy is not on it. Do you feel good volunteering for can goods, directing traffic, setting off fog machines? Touching things and not people? How many hours do you go into the hospitals, the jails, the rehabs, homeless shelters and the psychiatric centers? How many hours have any of you devoted to ending the sex trafficking problem which even takes place in your backyard? If you replaced your small groups with serving the poor every week imagine what good it could do for Atlanta?! This is YOUR churches priority: 1. Entertaining worship, Sermons 3. Theological discussions 4. Socials 5. Prayer 6. Serving the poor.

This is what it should be. Serving the suffering Praying Reading the Bible I believe this from 1 Corinthians 13:12 "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is LOVE." I believe Love is serving the suffering. We gain hope in prayer, and we understand our faith through reading the bible which is something the small groups rarely do anymore. It seems our churches have gotten so far away from our Christ like purpose. If our churches got their priorities straight our faith would be strengthened and so would our city. I feel compassion is something your church has very little of. Compassion means to be with the suffering. The more you serve the less problems you will realize you have and you will also have more endurance to get through your own crisis. I left your church like many others feeling my spiritual needs weren't being met and saddened and emotionally exhausted by how unloyal your churches model is. The small group model of 2 years with one another and then ending, then new people again, get close, open up, then end again I just cant do anymore. I don't even think that is healthy! I give this one star to B. There is one person among you who seems to have the compassion, and loyalty, and friendship I had been earning for. She gives me hope that there are more people like her and that our...

We attended North Point for several months. Recently we had a disturbing incident with the kid's middle school program. When they were introducing rising 5th graders to the transit middle school program. Two boys and two girls were selected from the audience. Then they had the girls take off their shoes and socks, and they had the boys use the girls' feet and toes to spread peanut butter and jelly on some bread. I thought that was already too much for church, but then, they told the kids whoever can eat more of the sandwich will win. My son was one of those kids. I thought they were joking, but I was horrified to watch as they encouraged my son and the other boy to eat the sandwich. They're basically encouraging my son to eat garbage at church. My son didn't want to, but as a young kid being encouraged on stage, he wasn't able to just say no (and we were sitting too far back from the stage to come up to stop it and it’s basically like a concert hall , dark and loud).

None of the adults involved seemed to see any issue with this, and they did this at both services that day. Not the mc's, not the stage crew, not the program managers, not the teachers, no one said anything to point out this is not appropriate. Afterwards we brought this up with the staff and the main person involved apologized just to calm us down, not that they actually see this as wrong. And when we tried to contact the church leadership, they largely ignored us and did not take any accountability. If none of the adults involved realized how wrong this is, to humiliate kids on stage like that and encourage them to eat trash, then there is a larger problem that needs to be addressed. And what is this teaching the kids? That it's ok to mistreat others with such degrading activities. As a parent, I felt that other parents should be aware that their kids saw this happen and learned that this is what we do to have fun, and that the kids should be told this was a mistake and is not acceptable, but the leadership decided not to say anything and just move on. While one person had reached out to apologize, he's not part of the senior leadership that is responsible for this church. And no action was made to take ownership and ensure the adults involved understand why this was wrong and to prevent it again. My family feels wronged and traumatized with no resolution.

They say they are teaching kids to make wise choices but they're the ones putting the kids in a situation not to make wise choices. The senior pastor Andy Stanley is busy promoting his book about parenting, talking about how we need to prioritize the next generation, but he’s too busy to be bothered with this. The way this situation was dealt with by Andy Stanely’s team makes the sermons very hypocritical, especially as this involves how kids are treated at this church. They are too focused on building a business rather than aligning with God’s teachings and focusing on the people in the church. I hope they can reflect and look at where their priorities are and not be a false teacher. If you don’t have a solid faith, do not go to this church. They will fail you and your family and you are only helping...

Very sad. Andy Stanley is a wonderful communicator as can be seen from other reviews. The sad part is how clearly he communicates that his wisdom is of greater truth than God's word (James 3:1). Mr. Stanley does not need to fear men, but should be greatly afraid of his coming judgement for leading his followers astray. His recently deleted social media posts clearly praise the wolves in sheep's clothing as having greater faith than the sheep and so we should praise and accept the wolves. He is a true leader, yes. But one that leads many away from God and His Word. He says that passion is greater than truth and if one is passionate about their beliefs we should accept their belief as truth. Unfortunately he acts as though LGBTQ is new to the world and so the writers of the Bible weren't enlightened when they wrote that it is a sin. We should pray for a revival of the church's leadership. He is the wolf. Beware. The Bible is clear how the Church is to handle sinners in their midst (Matthew 18:15-20) and that a little leaven levens the whole batch. If you're looking for a community to feel good about yourself and will accept whatever the world today says is morally acceptable without regard for the truth of God's word, you have found your home. It is telling that the only reviews they respond to are the positive ones and the ones where someone had a bad experience. They won't respond to ones that question their teachings or view of the Bible. Evidence that there...