Several feature a monk in a brown robe. A hundred candles flicker. An old Jacuzzi serves as baptistry. Solomon's Porch meets in a place that looks like a cross between Greg Brady's bedroom and the lounge in a nursing home, according to the church's Web site. Pantego's Axxess is lighted only by candles.
Messages tend to be conversational.
He dismissed classes on how to evangelize and make disciples. Information and formulas aren't equal to faith or true conversion, he said. We experience God, and we experience one another. Not everyone likes this message, Mr. Gornto said. He's been called a heretic, and one woman left Journey after complaining that his message didn't offer enough solid guidelines.