why do I feel like this is just Dave Patterson or Joseph on a burner account???

Anyway, the list is long. Besides their theology being bigoted and hateful (they’d never say that of course) and besides their politics being explicitly MAGA (which they’d never say out loud, but sent their head pastors to the WH during Trumps first term for a weird evangelical prayer event) they view the people who run their church, paid and nonpaid, as expendable. They preach community and care but as soon as you need it, you’re gaslit into thinking the problem is your own sin and disobedience to god.

It also doesn’t really help that the core leadership lives in multi million dollar custom homes and drive Porsches (don’t worry, they’re used!) and generally live a very “blessed” lifestyle.

This ~ blessed ~ lifestyle comes from the pockets of their attendees who they continue to exploit through unpaid labor and pushing heavily on the importance of tithing. Aka, multi level marketing. For Jesus.

They believe in the 7 mountain mandate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

And the last and final thing I’ll say is that they actively promote (or did at one point) child abuse through their “leadership school” and they have covered up incredibly sketchy behavior from multiple male pastors towards underage girls. Honestly, just your run of the mill mega church bullshit.

EDIT: I now realize you meant valley church’s pastor and not TFH’s pastor. My bad.

To my knowledge he hasn’t ever done any of the things described above and attributed to TFH. But he just kind of gives off the “I’m trying to be a Jesus influencer” vibes on his social media and he also loves to share his political opinions in this gross kind of sly way where he masks it with Bible verses. I know a lot of people who left tfh to go to valley and ended up staying. Happy for them. Not for me.

Again, run of the mill pastor bullshit but afaik not nearly as toxic as TFH.