Very welcoming church no matter where you are at in life!
Super welcoming church family. Very transparent and welcoming staff. Awesome support and great teaching!
This church has a pasion to reach out to the community. Join us any Sunday.
None of the other reviews offer much dimensionality, so I wanted to provide an experientially-supported review. Obviously, these are the opinions of one couple and I'd encourage you to weigh your decision on a church home on a thoroughly-considered assessment concluding in prayer. Our experience with CB was simply that we sought a local church that provides solid biblical teaching, bible studies, hands-on shepherding by church leadership, the ability to reach and challenge folks at all points in their Christian walk and help them achieve those next steps progressively -- and also encourages others and bears one another's burdens. These are all biblical concepts. After over a year of attending and getting involved at the church, home group and servant/service levels, Calvary Baptist did not fit that description. Let me first off say that there are many good things going on at Calvary -- their kids ministry, their counselling and addictions recovery ministries, their encouragement for others to get involved and their desire to help others in the community -- all good. But viewing this from the collective, the group and the individual standpoints, the church felt like a social club with a little bit of Christ sprinkled here and there. From the collective standpoint, the Sunday services emphasize the "experience," with a full band and contemporary music but a busy 3 service "get-in, get-out" rotation made it feel a bit "drive-thru" and disconnected. The phrase "Followers Making Followers of Jesus," is the church mission statement, but the church is about a mile wide and an inch deep when it comes to teaching, equipping and encouraging through the Word of God, which comes on Sunday during services. From the group perspective, my wife's and my experience of fellowshipping with other, supposedly seasoned believers via "home groups" (we attended 3,) biblical teaching is largely from contemporary books other than Scripture. The church is at the size where the pastors, while cordial and friendly, are out of reach. From a personal standpoint, there are no bible studies, per se and there's no biblically-minded or communicated growth plan for those who want to go past first base spiritually. For guys, the monthly men's breakfast is mostly it in terms of guy-get-togethers. In the last year or so, there's been a bit of staff transiency as CB, the most challenging was the previous worship leader's child porn problem, which apparently no one knew about, which always begs the question -- who's holding whom accountable at the leadership level? That pastor's replacement has also now left due to a difference of "vision" and you have to wonder what's going on. Ultimately, I would call CB an attractional or seeker church in that most of the believers are baby Christians, many Purdue students. Pastor Daniel is relatively new to CB and the senior leaders are under 40. In speaking with them, some lean towards the corporate church model viz-a-viz Andy Stanley, and in my view, that's dangerous as those leaders are essentially hirelings ala John 10:11-13 and focused on business ideals and pursuits, not shepherding. Dan's previous experience was as a college minister and that's clearly his passion and his focus at CB. There are many churches which use the term "relevant," CB notwithstanding, and I suppose as post-modernism invades the US psyche and its religious pursuits, dumbing-down the self-sacrificial, selfless-servant model of Jesus and His church and the nature of TRUE relevancy -- the inerrancy and self-sufficiency of His Word, and not making church a playground for the Sunday bored -- more and more of these "relevant churches" are popping up with their worldy programs and models to focus on open doors instead of open gates (of heaven.) If you're new to Christ, perhaps CB will be a good fit. If you want to go deep . . . ??
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Calvary Church is a US Church based in West Lafayette, Indiana. Calvary Church is located at 310 Kalberer Rd, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA.
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