The morning service is uplifting. For the few times that I went, I did enjoy it very much and felt the strong presence of God. Once the service is over, the next service coming in is somewhat unpleasant because the people rush and push to get to a seat. Unfortunately, not appreciated and although I speak Spanish fluently, the culture and behavior of the 9:00 am service is so much different.
On another note, I participate in a celebration outside of the premises of the church. Everyone happy, very pleasant with their families, taking pictures, etc... We stood in line for the food serving with foam takeout plates and plastic utensils which to me was fine. It was like having a picnic. What changed for me that afternoon was the fact that on the stage, someone coaching the people how to greet their pastor Maldonado, cheering, etc... which I made no comment, but while everyone sat in picnic tables, there was a table placed in the center of all the picnic tables, with linen, covered chairs, china, silver ware, glass cups and nice ornaments on the tables. Very festive.
I asked myself why? Jesus sat with everyone on the table and they ate all equally and mind you.... he is Jesus our Lord and King.
I thought, perhaps it was the people who wanted to do this pleasant gesture, but why?
There is only One God, One King. No one other than him deserves such gestures.
This unfortunately, changed my view among other things, but we are all free to do as we wish. That he gave us. Whether I return or not is irrelevant for I will continue my relationship with...
Read moreStay away from this place. I was a new believer when I visited and didn't know what to expect. It was a short rushed sermon followed by a bunch fake healing and fake prophesying. Maldonado stated a bunch of VAGUE situations that he supposedly figured out prophetically and, sure, in a room with 1,000 people, he wasn't even right, but kind of close just because statistically even a broken clock is right twice a day. For example, he said that he was sensing that someone was having a pain in their leg (in a room with hundreds of people🙄), and someone was like, 'well I don't have leg pain but I have back pain?' And he was like "yes, I knew it!" And he said, "I'm sensing that someone is struggling with their father in prison and is praying for them to get out" or something like that, and then someone said that they have a cousin in jail. And then they started the line of people coming up to get PUSHED to pretend they were slain in the spirit. It was a big show. People running around the room like crazy people, people putting on their own little dance shows in the aisles. This is not a church.
Over the years I have known more and more people who have talked about their YEARS that they spent at this there and experienced abuse, manipulation, and even financial loss as the church pressured them and borderline threatened them to give more of their money.
This is a Prosperity Gospel / "Word of Faith" pit and a spiritually dangerous place that spreads lies about God and harms those who get sucked into...
Read morePpl who r leaving negative reviews can go to a spiritually dead church cuz what other churches offer doesn't even come CLOSE to what this ministry offers this is by far one of the best churches if not the best church in the country all these ppl saying that apostle and other prophets preach about is money is a complete lie and no one is conning you out of your money in what way would people even accomplish that? Ppl might say "o I sow tithes and offerings every week and that money never comes back they probably use it for their own agenda " and those tithes and offerings aren't used on themselves the money is used to expand the church and send the apostle and his team out to the nations to preach the word to ppl and have gods reach all over the world those ppl most likely don't pray and fast by doing that your money will come back multiplied the presence and love of god always manifests here the ppl are amazing the word and preachings are powerful praise and worship is amazing and yea the feeling of skeptism had me too but after coming here every week and being soaked in gods presence and taking the word and using it in gods vision and attending HOP every week you'll realize that those negative things you had against the ministry came from the devil cuz everyone knows the devil is a liar. IM LOOKING AT YOU SANDY AND ALL THOSE OTHER SPIRITUALITY DEAD PPL. This all came from a 14...
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