Calvary Chapel Dallas — Attraction in Plano

Much of what is said is good. The leadership practice, I mean the putting it into action.. not so good or consistent here. I mean towards their paid or volunteer-leaders. Not a spiritually-healthy-place to attend or to serve at. Most Calvary Chapels Are Indeed Wonderful and sound, excellent local churches. Sadly Not This One. Please do be warned. Of course there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a smaller church that needs people's help to function, and that really wants to grow big. The town of Plano has (small and ginormous) churches nearby that are very sound, friendly, pleasant, nurturing, healthy, safe and biblical. But there are reasons why some churches in this area stay real small with an abnormal turnover rate, I mean long-term. And those specific reasons are hard to hide long from their churchgoers. A church needs sound spiritual leaders, elders and a board who wisely guards their biblical mission and local church "vision" so to speak ..encouraging equippers that are there to feed the sheep if you will aka empower via the Holy Spirit's power. Yes, to edify the believers to go accomplish the group's mission. The leaders are to feed, not pressure or miss-label the people and then pretty much gets out of their way so they will minister (and I don't mean with zero accountability). Think about it. Attendees in Texas don't constantly need a church governance team that micromanages volunteers. My wife and three boys went to and served here in Plano for about four years when the current Senior Pastor also worked here full time (we know Eric well) and we cannot in good conscience recommend this place to anyone. We have attended and ministered at other Calvary Chapels across the nation including the first one in Costa Mesa California. And so many of these churches (even among the small Calvary Chapel congregations like this one..) were and still are excellent wonderful places with top notch leadership putting out thorough Biblical teaching. You know everything rises and falls on leadership. Again, most Calvary Chapels are still effective today, very warm-hearted places that consistently glorify the Lord and protect people. We unfortunately did not experience that same quality of ministry here, and it's not just due to that lack of proper training at the Plano location. We wish them well wanting to see a change for the people's sake. We have met some kind people and heard some very good things verbally passed along from the late Chuck Smith Sr. (the church movement's founder) at this Calvary Chapel from time to time, like people typically do at other ones, but an occasional echo from yesteryear (from the right ideas backed by the Book) minus real loyalty.. simply isn't enough to meet the needs of hungry Dallas...

Pastor Rick and Eric Coburn teach and preach line-by-line through the whole Bible with understanding and humor. This is great since in almost all churches, preaching and teaching is scatter shot where the pastor picks his favorite verses and we never get help understanding the difficult parts of the Bible. The Coburns' method is a lot harder to do.

I also noticed that the congregation is more involved in the church than other churches.

The church does not do the "gimmicky" things to bring in the lukewarm and keep them happy. You won't get the "be-happy, rah rah, success in life" sermons, but you will get an intimate knowledge of God that you can only get from the study of all of God's word. And if we get that right, everything else...

Even though I'm not physically able bodied enough to go to church at Calvary Chapel in Plano. Each week on Wednesday night Bible study and Sunday morning service is still My lifeline to Christ followers whom I have already met in early March of 2021. In 2022, My days of being able to make it to church at Calvary Chapel, began to become more limited due to being diagnosed with both skin cancer and blood cancer that has kept me from being able to go to church because of being in and out of area hospitals and IV chemo treatments out of state. I consider Calvary Chapel in Plano TX My home church and my church family. Katie in Dallas...