Xtreme Harvest Church — Attraction in San Antonio

Watch the RED FLAGS! He recommends people leave a google review, so here's mine. Went to this church for a couple months after arriving to SA. At first the Pastor (Ayala) seems on fire for the Lord which I was very excited about. Unfortunately it seems like he's on fire for himself! ALWAYS condemning, comparing other ministries to his, trying to raise funds for something other than outreaches, over hearing women that have been there for years refer to him as "dad" or "daddy", and calling out people about Tithing. When they have "revivals" and pray over you, they will try to push you down as their hand is on you to make it seem as if you have "fallen out" to try to show the rest of the people how "anointed" they are. He'll go try to recruit people for his church by preaching on the side of the highway, but I've never seen him do outreaches that actually help the community. Plate sales to pay rent is not outreach. The worse part is I learned NOTHING biblical (scripture, context, history, etc.) except flashy catch phrases from him (come on somebody). If you read many of the positive reviews, they speak like the pastor "no sugar coating" "no watered down teaching" "greasy grace"......almost cult like. Also, the pastor has "body guards" who stand around with stone faces just looking at everyone. They're not even into the service. What Pastor has body guards around him all day?

I kept feeling like Holy Spirit was telling me to leave.....so I did. I tried CBC and LOVE it. The first service I went to, they passed around buckets with money saying if anyone needed $ for anything, to go ahead and take from the bucket. I was very impressed and felt Holy Spirit in the service. If you feel the urge to leave, listen to your God given intuition. Jesus has somewhere better for...

2 Peter 2:2-3

2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

Mathew 6:25-33

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [j]cubit to his [k]stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [l]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be...

I’ve been discipled, saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost for many years. While visiting family in San Antonio, I found this church for my sister in law to begin attending. People were welcoming and friendly. The initial cringy videos are meant to hype someone up and appeal to people emotionally. The lead pastor then body slammed the Easter bunny for the laughs. No doubt this Church is trying to preach about Jesus but the worship is “Extremely” distracting with party strobe lights constantly flashing in your eyes and outlandish performance to hype the crowd. I did not expect a rave style worship for Resurrection day service. This lasted approximately 2 hours then the tithe/offering kicked off… we got the “we don’t need your money” but if you’re willing to apply it… my family had the discernment to get up and leave the service during this time. NO MESSAGE was preached or noticiable PRAYER prayed for the first 2 Hours that pointed to Resurrection of Christ. Sad. Apparently there was a “reenactment” of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice but we left before this. Time is short, repent and believe the Gospel. Jesus is the only way the only truth and the only...