This is a horrible church run by horrible people. In fact, it would qualify as a cult.
Do not attend this "church" if you are single, as the "pastor" has a self-admitted problem with idolizing marriage and family. One sermon was entirely about buying your wife a couch from Ikea to keep her happy. Because Ikea couches are clearly biblical. 95% of his sermon focus on marriage and family. If you don't fit this mold, you won't fit in here.
This church doesn't know what to do with single people, nor do they care.
The pastor will also gossip about you if you choose not to date one of his little golden boys, usually young men he has manipulated into working for less than minimum wage for the church who are his own personal yes-men. He will gossip about the person you choose to date instead, but will never actually approach you in person with his concerns, as is biblical.
If you do date one of them, be prepared to be befriend and questioned by the pastor via social media AFTER you inevitably break up with them due to their unhealthy ideas about how love and relationships work.
These under-25 deacons (another warning sign!) lead life groups, where there is mostly drinking and watching youtube videos with profanity. They favor public yelling, threatening, and shaming of people who don't agree with them. And it's not theological disagreements either, it's people who turn them down for dates or don't want to hang out on a certain day. This is met with petulant whining and yelling. If you are female, be prepared for misogynistic insults, or, if you are male, insinuations that you are not manly. Also, if you are a male who does not drink beer or actually likes talking about his feelings, be prepared to be told you are not manly. This is a church that worships Mark Driscoll's personal cult theology over anything else and has defended him since his fall from his own cult empire.
They seem to enjoy driving people away from the church with this yelling-and-shaming strategy, rather than loving them like Jesus commanded. And this isn't a church discipline issue at all; IME it was driving out people they perceived to be "competition" (mostly for girls who were not interested) or people who knew more about theology then they did and dared correct a small group leader, or people that just didn't fit the mold or simply didn't want to be close friends with certain "leaders." Basically, if you don't 100% agree, dare to ask questions, are a single woman who works, are a man who doesn't enjoy beer or MMA or dirt bikes, don't fit a certain mold, or worship the" leadership" they will try to drive you out.
If you are married, but don't or can't have children, you won't fit in. This church jokes about putting things in the water to disrupt birth control method and encourages very young, clearly not financially-stable people to have more children than they can reasonably support. Many, many young couples struggling with infertility were driven out, being told they were not "in God's will" for their lives because of their lack of children.
I suspect this church is going the way of their Mars Hill idols and won't be around much longer (no more second campus, fewer services, etc) but do be warned, it's not a healthy church at all. It's more about the power the leadership has, and Jesus is an afterthought. Stay away. There are better, healthier churches in Kitsap County. Coram Deo Church is unhealthy, manipulative, and Jesus is not there. read more