This review is written after a span of about 14 or so months within which I had a few different experiences with this church. I first visited this church when they were having a collaborative worship session with members from other church worship teams. It was very powerful. The Holy Spirit was heavy in the room. I and others were losing themselves in the Holy Spirit. A holy hush came over the room which then turned into people crying out to the Lord. It was a holy moment. Then the pastor abruptly interrupted it to say how the Lord had told him that we needed to cry to Him.... WE ALREADY WERE! He got in the way because he needed to hear himself talk over everyone. He ruined a beautiful moment, stopped the flow of the Holy Spirit.
I began attending their SMASH ministry which stands for Spirit Mind And Soul Healing where they combine elements of Sozo with HeartSync to facilitate Inner Healing. Aside from receiving Words from the facilitators, overall, I really wasn't impressed as the exercises that took place didn't really seem to have any effect. (The best Deliverance/Healing modality I've experienced yet overall is Splankna. Only Theophostic competes but Theophostic depends on whether you and the Holy Spirit are truly connecting on a heart level. Whereas Splankna is able to reach your heart despite any resistance or "Guardians" as HeartSync calls it from your subconscious. When Theophostic actually works, your memory is actually changed, changing your emotions. Emily at The Rock is my recommendation for that. I recommend Leslie Couch of Unshackled Ministries in Colorado Springs for Splankna. Its a drive but she's organized and has a kool little sheet that she makes copies of for you to take home all that took place in your session.) One of my facilitators said she was also a Prophetess/Seer and we were mutually led to meet outside of sessions for her to mentor me. We met only twice and then she disappeared, and over a month later when I inquired if we would continue to meet, she claimed that she never committed to being my mentor when indeed she had.
In the interim, I attended their Prophetic Community meeting shortly before my birthday. I started to confide to the wife leader that I recently realized that I'm a Prophetess but my discernment stopped me. Well, she pushed for me to finish what I was saying and when I did, it was obvious that she was jealous. The husband leader was prompted after a series of visions that took place that night to have everyone lay hands on me and pray, and he prophecied that I would be a purveyor of hope. The whole thing was hard to forget. A month later at the next meeting, the wife leader greeted me by saying "Oh, weren't you here last time?" REALLY?! You're going to act like you don't remember that whole big ordeal? Months later I showed up around the time of SMASH to converse with my ex shortly before his session. I had stopped attending sessions after the Prophetess facilitator abandoned me as my mentor. Long story short, instead of carrying on with my ex's session as scheduled, they attempted to send him home without his session and give his session to me, and I caught my other former facilitator in a lie regarding it all. Months later I attended the Prophetic Community again to see how the new leader would run things. I wasn't impressed as usual as he wasn't teaching anything new to me (God has led me to many resources/books/experiences.) He announced he would route all communication through Facebook moving forward. I informed him that I boycott Facebook. His response was pretty much "tough sh*t, conform or be left out." At that time I was also boycotting craigslist and decided I would get on Facebook to try to find a new domicile as I needed to move north for my new job. I joined the Prophetic Community's private group. I shared a few videos, including one about how Halloween should not be celebrated or condoned by Christians, and how it can bring curses. He politely publicly rebuked me for the video, saying that such controversial "gray area" topics should not be addressed. Once I found a new domicile, I deleted my Facebook account, and emailed him privately to request that he remove me from the email list (not that he was really going to be using it anymore anyway). He pushed for more out of me. So, I rebuked him, charged him to examine himself in prayer before the Lord about whether he is fearing man instead of/more of God. I also addressed how his response to me regarding Facebook in the actual meeting was very exclusive - as in not inclusive/inviting/welcoming but instead was very "conform to the ways of the world." Instead of taking the time to examine himself in prayer, he immediately emailed back saying "we'll have to agree to disagree."
Overall, the leadership of this church is not what it should be which is rampant these days. And what's scary is that Bridgeway is said to be the spiritually prophetic barometer of the whole geographical region. read more