Emily C.
Yelp
I really don't know how to rate this place. There's some good and some bad, and overall, I really want to find another church.
Let's start with the good. One week after my husband and I moved here, I had a major crisis of faith, to put it mildly. My husband took it really hard and wanted counseling. We went to Water of Life (in the middle of the week) as total strangers, having been to one service, and they immediately got us someone to talk to and gave us a number to call if we needed anything else. I think that was very good of them.
The preaching is engaging and the music is fine. You actually have the option of four different worship services, and then they beam in the pastor's sermon from the main building. Kinda cool.
On the bad side, the preacher kept annoying me with little things, and then finally, he said something that wasn't accurate. He quoted Jesus as saying: on judgment day, it's just gonna be you and God, one on one, and God will only care about one thing: was Jesus your savior? Unfortunately for the pastor, I have actually READ the Bible, and what Jesus SAID was that God will send all the people who fed the hungry, clothed the poor, visited people sick and in prison, etc, to the good place; and he'll send all the people who didn't do good deeds to the bad place. The pastor can go ahead and say whatever HE thinks is gonna happen, but he better not be putting words in Jesus' mouth, because I think that's kinda blasphemous and you might go to the bad place. If there is such a place.
(SIDE NOTE: I have received some condescending emails about my theology, so if you want to know what Jesus said about who gets to go to Heaven and Hell, just google "sheep and goats". It's Matthew 25:31-46. And please quit with the preachy grumpy emails.)
Anyways, the church has a bookstore but no library, and doesn't give coffee and donuts. Dude. What gives. I mean seriously. You can tell me lies about what some Jewish troublemaker said 2000 years ago, but I better have a nice cup of free coffee in my hand when you do it.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, the pastor told me strait to my face that there was no such thing as the Golden Rule before Jesus came along. And he has two master's degrees so I should really not worry about all these silly questions. I don't know why I didn't say "Well I only have ONE Master's degree, but either YOU'RE A LYING LIAR OR YOU'RE DUMB."