Cornerstone Fellowship of Livermore - Livermore, California

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I have been attending to this Church since 2017. I had a lot of stuff going on at the time and by my friend's recommendation I one day tried Cornerstone. The service was amazing.

They used to have prayer team after service. I remember I walked up to one of the prayer team members because I was having an emotional breakdown and I thought it would be safe to be vulnerable but she made me feel so awkward and embarrassed. I didn't feel that genuine care and sadly God's grace from her.

I truly think the leaders (Pastors) are phenomenal at this church. I do love the sermon and the way how they preach about God is on point, which is why I still attend Cornerstone even to this day.

However, I still do not feel safe in this church enough to dive in, to get plugged in. It's hard to trust people especially if that's how you have been treated with one of their staff. I know and understand that church is not a place where everyone is holy and flawless but in order for you to serve in that role, I do believe that you need to have more responsibility and spiritually mature.

I used to appreciate the praise team. I still do but before the Pandemic, I was able to feel God's grace, I was able to feel that they were praising with God's grace to be exact. Unfortunately, some of the praise team members now adays seem to be a bit lacking in terms of faith. Not sure if they are practicing enough, putting their time & effort enough. I often see this one person forgetting lyrics, making mistakes and it's just not once but pretty often. That questions me their faith.

Lastly, I get the concept of "Neighorhood Church" but do you really need to close the church every 2nd week of Sunday? This Neighorhood Church can't be done on a different day? This really destroys the traditional Sunday service. People tend to stop attending church in every excuse. This isn't encouraging people to show up to Sunday service. Therefore, we need to keep church open on Sundays no matter what.

abisola I.

This is a beautiful place to worship and hear about the word of God. Open to all for either a 9am or 11am service time on Sundays with classes for children, middle schoolers, and high schoolers. In the presence of God, there is fullness of joy.

Daniel W.

We have been going to this church for a long time. I read other reviews and thought I needed to put my own in. This church is changing, yes. But it is ever striving to include everyone, kinda like Jesus! They read from the Bible every sermon, and bring the message back to it the whole time. They have multiple pastors so the way things are presented changes from week to week but is always brought back to what does love require. That is asked because of John 3:16 "for God so loved the world...". They focus on the unhoused, social justice, fostering children and many other local and global ministries. This church is open and friendly and a great asset to the Tri-valley.

Sarah G.

Wonderful people, band, and offer generous help to the community. If you are needing help please stop by Friday morning. There are showers, warm coffee, people to help with getting you on your feet again and will pray with you. It’s an amazing church that has open arms, realistic views, and are compassionate beyond belief.

Tee A.

Honestly, mark and avoid this church. I attended today and the teachings were not sound. I witnessed a great deal of Gnosticism from the explanation of the spiritual connection behind outstretched hands in prayer (I need biblical references if you’re going to share this) to placing a lot of emphasis on feeling the presence of God. If we based things off of feelings we would be sorely misled, not to mention deceived. Also the sermon was all over the place, I left so confused and wondered what was the message. Lastly, I do not agree with women pastoring a church. The only good things I heard was we should share our testimonies with others. And I thought it was cool they have small church gatherings in homes once a month. I love a good sense of community. I do hope more people stop going to churches in general just to feel good or get motivated but rather desire to hear the word of God rightly divided. Much eisegesis going on here.

If anyone is looking for a perfectly imperfect ministry to hear sound biblical teaching as you wait to find a church home. I’d recommend going to Bibleline found on YouTube headed by a pastor located in Tampa, FL.

Lorelei F.

Just wanted to share my good news. Back in January, I was down and out after having just learned that my dad had cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy. I came upon this Church while visiting a friend and decided to put a prayer request in. I showed the prayer request to a young man who spoke Spanish and was able to receive it. He prayed with me and he also invited me to return the following Sunday to pray some more. I told my Dad about it and by the end of February I learned the good news and it was that his cancer shrunk to practically undetectable. I am both surprised and not that surprised. But most importantly I am humbled once again by God's miracle and mercy. I am so revived knowing that there are people and organizations (institutions) that welcome me and respond in such a caring manner after being a stranger to them. I strongly believe in the power of prayer and the healing energy that happens when a collective (congregation) or a group put thoughts and energy into a situation that is in an effort to resolve it. Thank you.

Mrs. P.

This is the church I grew up in. At first I loved this church they taught me so much. They actually read out of the bible and taught verse by verse (unlike the Catholic church I went to when I was really young). Over the years things started to change. They started caring about what people thought and the branding of their church was more than feeding the sheep and the flock. As the years went by they slowly faded and faded more and more. Compromise here compromise there. When COVID hit that really opened my eyes of how far they have come from what the Bible actually says. They have moved so far from biblical teaching and their preaching is so watered down their flock is so lost. This church focuses more on entertaining the goats. I do not recommend coming here. If you would like to know what a biblically sound church looks like and a biblical preacher sounds like, look up these following churches. Christ Church Moscow Idaho, Apologia church Arizona, Grace community Church with John MacArthur. These pastors are not afraid to preach put his biblical truth and stand firm on the Bible.

sheik S.

Wonderful church. My kids both performed for Christmas recital. Wonderful people.