Core Church

Pastor Steve is awesome everyone should be going to core Church for all those that are christ-​centered and hold a biblical worldview

This is a Great Church that teaches real bible principles! There’s not enough stars for me on the rating! If you want to be blessed head to Core Church! Mike Lauter

Awesome church! Pastor Steve is a great teacher, who loves the Lord and has a heart for lost souls. Love coming to this church. You can be sure you’ll walk away reenergized and on fire to share the gospel. God Bless Core Church and Pastor Steve.

LOVE this church! Been coming almost a year now. God is really blessing this ministry! Everyone here loves God and I see everyone growing each week! I’ve watched lives transform! Young adult ministry here is alive btw! It’s not just truck in, and truck out. There’s actual fellowship here! Made so many friends, I love this place! Praise God!

Core! «There’s a God in Heaven that Loves You!» …He’s knocking… let Him in.
Pastor Steve Wilburn brings The Message every week!
If you’re seeking guidance… Pastor Steve and his team will guide you through the struggles of today… in a biblical approach.

This update is to clarify Luke’s review on Core Church.
1) Church feeling «empty» and not a «community.»
As Luke mentioned, there was a women’s retreat when he visited that weekend, that’s why the service was a bit empty because close to 200 women were gone (I was one of them). Also, we moved into this building 7 months ago for a much bigger space since the church grew rapidly after 3 years and needed extra space. That’s why not every seat is filled yet as we continue to grow.
Additionally, I can guarantee you that there’s very much a strong community and bond between brothers and sisters at Core (read my original review below). I had no Christian friends before coming to Core, and now I have more Christian friends than non-​Christian ones who support me, encourage me, disciple me, pray for/​with me along the way.
2) Pastor Steve is pushing one-​sided, anti-​scientific rhetoric.
I’m an Electrical Engineer by degree (UC San Diego), and have been working in high-​tech industry since 1996. We also have many scientists, researchers, and people in technology industry coming to Core — many of them PhD’s.
I love science and technology. From attending Core for the past 4 years, I can tell you that Pastor Steve does not brush science aside but often references scientific evidence of God’s existence and His mighty work. He challenges us to think through some of the wild claims we were forced to learn in school such as Evolutionism and the Big Bang theory that contradict how God created the earth with no solid scientific proof.
To me, science does not contradict God’s design of the universe, rather, it explains it by means of perfect mathematical expressions. Therefore, if Pastor Steve denies science and cannot reconcile science with God’s word, I and many others wouldn’t have been coming to Core for as long as we have and still love it.
Now, Pastor Steve is not a scientist, so you can’t expect him to focus his messages completely on how science reconciles with God’s word. However, he does invite guest speakers who are experts in those areas to fill that gap. For example, we recently had Pastor Don Stewart, who hosted The Bible Answer Man and Pastor’s Perspective, to speak to us and hold a Q&A session. In November, we will have Ken Ham, who debated Bill Nye (the Science Guy) to come and speak to us and give us perspectives on God’s word from a scientific point of view.
None of us is perfect and no one retains complete knowledge of everything in this world. I am grateful that Pastor Steve recognizes where he falls short and cares for us enough to invite these speakers to come fill the void and answer our questions in areas that he’s not an expert of. Thank God for his faithfulness pastoring the flock at Core and for his transparency and humbleness.

Being relatively new to Los Angeles, I am still in an ‘exploratory’ phase where I’m actively searching for ‘home’ as it relates to church. I went to Core LA this morning knowing little about it, and came away confident that it isn’t the right kind of church, at least for me. Here are a few personal observations:
1) The worship is good — not too loud, not too soft, and not over-​the-​top (as some churches’ worship services in LA can be). For an introvert who enjoys getting into the music and words in his own way, it felt right.
2) The service itself was pretty empty — I went to the 1230pm, and found out that there’s a women’s retreat happening this weekend, which could help explain the numbers. Because of the emptiness, however, there was an energy and sense of close community that was noticeably absent.
3) The sermon was energetic, and based well in scripture (some sermons I’ve heard across LA are a little too surface level for me) — However, I found that Pastor Steve pushed a little too much one-​sided, openly anti-​science rhetoric. I find it hard to relate to churches that don’t allow science to expand their knowledge of God’s skill set and the general scale of creation, but rather brush it aside without consideration. It’s the kind of mindset and messaging that I believe makes too many Christians look ignorant. After all, all truth is God’s truth.
I look forward to continuing my own search, and certainly wish Pastor Steve, the Core team, and the congregation a fruitful future. Next stop: Reality LA.

There’s something just really solid about this church…
I’ve only stopped by here twice, both Friday nights, but I can tell that there’s nothing that feels pretentious about this place. The leaders of this place just seem like really chill, solid Christians.
A really cool vibe about the people, and I adore the church’s interior! I am an avid church-​hopper and Core Church has been a great place to visit so far. Excited to come check it out on a Sunday service!

The worship is uplifting and are contemporary Songs. The message is simple there is a GOD in Heaven that LOVES you. Jesus is our only hope for salvation. The WORD of God should be read everyday and to be applied to our lives. We are to share the Gospel with nonbelievers that are dying in their sins. A Non denominational church (one church = the people) that is not religious. It is about a relationship with the one true living GOD. Pastor Steve thunders out the word with a great passion and fire for God. All praise to Jesus the Lion and the Lamb, the holy word of God that became flesh and died for ONCE AND FOR ALL.

I’m a student from China. Life was pretty hard for me to be a student and afford myself by doing hard stuff. since I got Steven’s voice from kkla radio. I found my motivation again. Thanks. Paster might angle draw a most beautiful rainbow upon your family and bring healthy wealthy and happiness for you and your family forever and ever. Thank you. God bless You.

March of 2014 I came to Christ and now the lord has put me to work how I found out about this church on the computer and I was interested about what it was about Jesus Christ the worship band amazing Gods Good and he has a Purpose to open doors