Ann Graf

Review of Eastbrook Church

The Living Waters class was the worst experience I...

The Living Waters class was the worst experience I ever had at Eastbrook. I attended this church for over a quarter of a century, but this was awful. It was a manipulative and judgmental experience shrouded in spirituality of the worst kind. I was told I wasn't repentant enough, I didn't appear sad enough. I didn't appear to be engaged in true worship. I was questioned as to why I did not go up and touch the large wooden cross at the front of the room during penitent prayer. Really? Homosexuality is not acceptable at Eastbrook, and this class offers to "pray your gay away." This was not my personal issue, but I was mortified to see others forced to share their sins in front of the group and then be barraged with rhetoric to "break the oppressive grip of unwanted homosexual desire." Just wrong. I will not return to this church as long as this class is being offered and supported, along with such hurtful and backward positions on sexuality.