Rock City Church | Polaris

Reviews

• RB

  Randall Back

  Nov 3, 2026
  5.0
  Great place to worship
• CC

  Cristina Campbell

  Nov 1, 2026
  5.0
  This is a truth speaking church that really wants people to find and know Jesus. We will have no excuse on judgment day with a church like this online
• CN

  cam neff

  Oct 13, 2026
  2.0
  I’m an active member. If you’re like me, and your walk with Jesus is more than Sundays at church and your only intention is to truly walk in His truth, then maybe also like me, you’ll start opening your eyes or stop silencing the alarm bells that go off if you’re a current member like me. Anyone who is currently at Rock City seeking for the same things I just mentioned knows exactly what I’m talking about. You have moments of unease during every sermon. I’ve been going for about a year now, and I’ve been holding onto hope that the pastor, who I do think is very touched in some ways and has a great gift from God, is deeply convicted by God. I pray for pastor Chad, because it’s pretty clear to see if you have eyes that will see that his sermons are always directed towards the church, not the actual message. He’s not bringing people home the way he could if his messages actually tied the stories from the Bible into how they’re meant to be understood. He compels so many people and loses them by the end. Somehow God’s messages get lost and all stories end up leading to “get more people to church” or “don’t be someone who gossips **IN THE CHURCH**. I think they’re getting paranoid by all of the negative feedback and questions they’re getting from people online. Check out Reddit. Type anything in on google and the words Rock City and you’ll see. I’ve noticed that as people are commenting and receiving no feedback from the church (which wouldn’t be the response, I feel, by a true disciple of Jesus), the sermons seem to be more and more specific. Hes made several comments in recent sermons about the comments people have made about his appearance and name. They’re clearly reading, but not responding. Not at all the kind of response or message Jesus would have put out into the world. I’ll hold off for a few more weeks, but if this continues on or if I hear a single sermon about donating to the church again, I’m out. There was one sermon where the entire thing was about money. He was trying to get everyone to donate to reach the goal of some astronomical amount, over $1m I believe. There was clearly a donor that was going to donate a large sum of money, and he used intimidation as a way to get them to pay, because for whatever reason they had not yet. You could feel his anger in the way he called them out. Like he mentioned the specific amount that was still pending because of 1 person who hasn’t followed through on their “commitments” and even demanded that they do so. They did. We reached the goal. Use discernment.
• AA

  Amy

  Aug 31, 2026
  2.0
  RC is a good church beginners church, if you’re a new Christian or new to Columbus. The preaching is biblically based - ppl leaving the reviews about Pastor Chad and his opinions haven’t read the Bible. He won’t preach what you want to hear. He will preach what the Bible says and sometimes that’s not easy to hear if it applies to you and hits a nerve. Music is good. But once you’ve been coming here for awhile, you’ll start to see things that are “off”. The lobby is filled with staff members, smiling and welcoming ppl as they walk in but if you get involved you find these same staff members are actually pretty rude when not standing in the lobby for all to see. You can’t sit where you want, the ushers dictate - rudely - where you have to sit. So if you don’t want to sit on the floor and/or up front - walk in late. And I shouldn’t have to explain a medical reason why I need an aisle seat, not smooshed like a sardine in the middle of a row, where it’s difficult to get out. And yes, you’ll be packed in because they close off about 1/3 to 1/2 of the seats so the church appears packed in the livestreams and YT videos. I also was turned off when they started selling “church merch” in the lobby. This is a house of prayer and worship and yet there’s a vibe about the RC “brand”. They have a good youth program but I wouldn’t send my kid to camp/retreat until they start splitting up the middle and high school kids. There are just too many kids and there is a certain lack of transparency with these trips. And lastly, speaking of transparency, there is no list of employees or their salaries, including the pastors. And I thought it was questionable when they established a full ride scholarship at the university where the pastor’s eldest daughter goes to school and no recipient was ever named. I went here for several years and left over a year ago. My entire family, including 4 adult kids, and my husband - we all quit one by one. Edited to add this: one thing I noticed as I’ve scrolled through the reviews-most of the positive 5 star reviews have actually been written by staff members or new people who just recently started attending. Keep that in mind when reading them.
• EB

  Ericka Brown

  Aug 2, 2026
  1.0
  This place is disturbingly loud to live next to. I love my apartment complex but why is my personal home time being interrupted by this loud music. Imagine studying for your masters and the music being so loud it’s shaking your home, you can’t find no quiet space. And the only way to drown out the noise is putting on noise cancelling headphones. IN YOUR HOUSE!!! Where there are no other people that live with you. This can’t possibly be enjoyable inside. It sounds like a constant concert hall. And it’s not just on Sundays! this is so disturbing and inconvenient of the apartments next to it. For them to be people of God they sure aren’t convenient of other people. There is no reason i should hear their music in my HOME!!!!

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