Life Church — Attraction in Roscoe Township

Our family used to attend Life Church for a couple years and ended up leaving due to the unbiblical preaching and practices. I've kept this information to myself for years but feel it's time others were warned. For anyone considering visiting I'll describe the issues as best I can: 1) The worship is essentially a rock concert designed to induce an emotional response from the congregation. 2) During worship there would often be random congregants shouting out in "tongues" with no interpretation given, which is unbiblical. 3) Worship might go on and on for any undesignated amount of time causing the little children in childcare to wait lengthy amounts of time for their parents. 4) Scripture was often taken out of context and twisted to suit the name-it-and-claim-it agenda of this church. 5) On at least 2 occasions there were guest preachers that the senior pastor told the entire congregation on a Sunday morning not to question their preaching and just believe them. This is in direct conflict with God's Word which says to test anything someone says against the Scriptures. 6) There was a woman "prophet" on staff who frequently would proclaim prophecies over the congregation. 7) This same "prophet" held a class on prophecy which I personally attended in the hopes of learning more about biblical prophecies in the Bible. Instead I was handed a binder of photocopied materials created by the "prophet" which was basically instructions on how to BE prophets ourselves. There was very little Scripture included in the materials. 8) There was a "healing school" held at the church by 2 women who would lay hands on people and "heal" them. Some people were even told to go off of medications because they were "healed." 9) Frequently people would be invited up to the altar and other congregants would lay hands on them. Many would be "slain in the spirit" and fall on the floor. 10) There was a strange televised revival called the Lakeland Revival with a convicted child molester named Todd Bentley who would kick and punch people to "heal" them. The leadership at Life Church total bought into this revival and kept talking about it and how we shouldn't doubt God or "quench the Spirit." 11) We were always told not to doubt or question anything because everything equated to "quenching the Spirit." They were glad when people would leave because those people were doubters and were quenching the Spirit so it was better if they left. 12) We were constantly encouraged to give more and more money, give until it was a real...

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Assembly of God with a praise service. Great pastoral staff. Offering a ministry school/training program, children's classes, missions program, youth group, nursery and alot of opportunities for people to grow/do activities. Easy access and able to be...