Attended there several years ago and felt Immanuel would become an amazing mega-church with a God-driven mission to influence this whole area for the Christian cause. It was having a few problems then with certain influential families trying to control and pull rank on the then-current pastor, whom they finally forced out under irrelevant, rumor-driven circumstances ---- meaning, he was a powerhouse for political and media involvement, and the old guard did not like it. I guess they could not stomach controversy and a fearless confrontation of issues. His dismissal should never have been handled such in a non-New Testament way, and in fact did not occur because of any justifiable reason. Not in my book anyway. So I quit going. I hope the church succeeds mightily and adheres to Christian principles but for myself, I won't be going back. Trying to stifle and control a pastor standing for God just doesn't sit well with me, nor trying to make a church a socially and clique-controlled club. Hopefully that's all changed for the better.
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