Life.Church reviews

1. Sacrifice is a given in ministry, but sometimes that banner is waved to keep people quiet when they have to live with the negative impacts of leaders’ poor decisions. It can feel manipulative. 2. There are several staff who have track records of bulldozing, manipulation, gaslighting, and deceit, and even though their leaders know about it, these staff members are given new opportunities with higher influence and impact. When a leader continues to allow this, the leader is the one to blame. Meanwhile, dozens of faithful, trustworthy, long-tenured staff remain in the trenches, doing fantastic work, but they are actively held back same opportunities for advancement, no matter how deserving they may be. It’s gotten to the point that it seems to be more about who likes a person than how good they are at their job. 3. Those who are not “conventionally attractive” may find it difficult to get outward facing opportunities, regardless of their skills or talent. 4. Even though there are 45 locations, only 2 are led by women, which seems to indicate a gap in leadership development between men and women for those highest campus leadership roles. We can do better!

As someone who was at Life.Church for over 5 years, I believed I would be there forever. When you’re in it, you feel like working there is amazing. It was my dream job. Campus life is completely different from Central life and depending on who you get as a campus pastor really determines how far you’ll go. My campus pastor unfortunately ran the church like a business instead of actually pastoring their staff. They cared more about finding perfection in people fitting the culture than truly caring about the individual. I walked into work every day feeling like I was making a difference but my leader never acknowledged that. I wasn’t pastored. I wasn’t met with grace. I was used for my gifts and never poured into from my leader. I believed in Life.Church for so long, but when you have leaders like that pretty high up in the organization, you’re going to lose people who are truly in it for Jesus and passionate about pouring into people.