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!

The likelihood of you advancing is not very there. Compensation is horrible. Very hard to support a family on the offered salary and felt like salary raises were contingent on a very hard annual review. Honestly, there were months that it was hard to make ends meet. Spouse most assuredly needs to work. They preach about everyone being a family and being part of a ministry, but at the same time, it is also very much a business to them. Management will certainly bring up the business aspect anytime they feel you are doing something wrong and will use that in your reviews. But it's all for the ministry! See how confusing this is?