October 23 2019 , Today I asked for food, and I was told that the church will no longer help financially, and I shoukd find another church to go to.
Sadly, it is July, 24 2019 and my kids and I are low on food. My benifits dropped dramatically once I began to work. When I asked for help from my local church, I was denied. They have helped my kids and I last month but dont want to help unless I'm tithing and in a church group anymore! I was referred to the Norcross coop ministry where the food is stale and the kids will not eat it. I have friend that attended regularly at victory and received six months to a year of help do to illness. Well I tithe all the time I attend the church, I just dont put my information on the envelope! I have come to the church for 15 years! I am still learning how to be a Christian but often get offended from the same people I am learning from. I have a lot to overcome but when your in survival mode you lose track a lot and try to keep faith trying believe your kids will get the necessities they need right now is no stale food and school clothes and a washer & dryer. I work and try to stay within my means. I tried to adjust finances and reduce cost still I have to work 12 hour days and still struggling. A hand out is if I came in my opinion every single day! A leg up is providing someone with the tools and necessities to prosper on his or her own and sustain with out tremendous failure. If I come to the church in a small group and I am worried how my kids are eating or how I will eat after the meeting is over do you think the word is taking affect? I am not enttitled to nothing and nobody owes me nothing. God says ask and your recieve, tell me in what verse where and why you will not receive under conditions or requirements. I will keep seeking my faith but it makes it difficult to listen when know one hears your cries for help!
Sunday January 24 2016 I attended church again and the message was hard to here but necessary. It was about tithing. What I liked was how real the pastor was with the message and i shook his hand for the first time but what I did not like was the mention of welfare as a negative in the sermon. The church is supported through tithing and I do understand about bringing the money to the storehouse etc... however most people who tithe want the money to help the church as well as outside the church. Should there be a limit on how many times a person is helped. Jesus helps everyone and died for our sins. He mentioned welfare as to say the church is not a welfare organization and people take advantage and tell their friends... well the economy is in trouble so is the presidential election along with poverty and employment. The welfare sends people with low income a resource list and this church is one of them. Most people ask if your involved in a church family. So does the church only want to help members only. What about the community they reside in and the missions to help other countries. I have my own issues to deal with and need God's help to work them out. However it felt offensive to say to a welfare reiceipent in other words don't ask for anything from our church unless u get saved or...
Read moreI have been missing church for a long time. I couldn't get to my old church, so I've been looking for a new church closer to my home. Today was my first visit to Victory Church Norcross. And I am so happy! I didn't know I could like a church so large. But I loved it! I am disabled, so a friend took me to Victory. There is a station outside the church for disabled people. They provide a wheelchair to use while you're at church, and a church member to push the wheelchair, while the driver finds a place to park. I left my personal wheelchair in my friend's vehicle while I was at church. There are all kinds of people at Victory, old, young, white, brown, from everywhere. There is no dress code. (Good thing, because I only have leggings and tops.) The pastor was wearing a polo shirt. The ladies were wearing whatever, jeans, dresses, whatever they wanted. One of the awesome things about Victory Church is the belief in community. Everyone is welcome! And Victory's outreach goes way beyond the four walls of the church. The music was inspiring. The sermon was up-to-date and relevant. Maybe I missed church more than I thought. Before the music, a lady on stage shouted, "The tomb is empty! Our King is alive!" And I began crying, I was so happy. You should experience Victory for yourself. 08/07/22. I attended Victory Church Norcross again today. I enjoyed the service and took communion. There was a visiting pastor from one of the other Victory churches, and he spoke, and I really enjoyed his witness. The Victory music team was awesome, as usual. I found out today that there is a children's sanctuary. And an "overflow" sanctuary for worshippers when there are no seats available in the "main" sanctuary. And a place where Victory Church volunteers take care of the babies during the services. And a sanctuary where Spanish-speaking worshippers hold services. And the services are "beamed" to other places, like India and Nigeria, with translation! And I don't think I've learned even half of Victory Church. What an amazing incredible church! I added a photo of the sculpture in front of the church and two photos of the Cafe inside Victory Church Norcross. The Cafe seems like a good place to meet other worshippers. Maybe some day I will be able to spend some time in the Cafe. I...
Read moreAfter attending this church and being involved in most services and conferences for 2 and a half years we have come to the realization through our sanctification that there are too many wrongs going on in this church that we can no longer ignore and had to leave. Some of the problems we have are: They allow Montel Jordan to be a Pastor yet he is still performing in the secular music industry. They have started to use the message version to study and yet it is one of the most unbiblical version you could use. So many principles have been omitted from the awful paraphrase version. They also teach a bit of the Word of Faith movement and say you have to have enough faith and God will heal you or you have to Tithe so God will bless you with more money. They improperly teach about tithes saying you must give 10% or more of your before tax income or God won't bless you. Tithes were a government tax in the OT and is never mentioned in the NT. The only thing Jesus teaches on is to give generously from your heart. They allow women to preach to men and ignore what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14 that women are not allowed to teach men. Denis teaches speaking in tounges as being some language that is nonsense babel when in the Bible teaches it is actual language that can be translated and was used to get the Gospel out to other cultures that deciples did not know the language. Their "worship" time is more of a concert which I always believed was okay until God showed me how selfish and worldly it is. Most of the song are about "me me me" and less of God. Which most all contemporary Christain music is. They sing Hillsong and Bethel which I 100% disagree with. They allow people such as John Grey to speak to their sheep who one is just a motivational speaker just like his teacher Joel Osteen. I could go on and on but I do not have to time to write it all. I only write this so maybe the church will see their wrongs but also to warn those either going in or that are already there to take everything to God and really study the Word of God deeply and to not trust everything the preachers teach at face value. God bless and I pray for a revival in this church to turn from their cultural ways and to follow the...
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