Calvary Chapel Malibu

White people and money in the name of Jesus.
Brian La Spada has had the most expensive training money could buy, but his sermons are comparable to a political debate that nobody came to hear Live.
Brian markets Brian. I once handed him a stack of biz cards, asking him to share them with the youth group he was in lay leadership over. He told me yes, and then never did it, later admitting jealousy. (Marketing a then-​Bible media novelty).
The project ran its course, but in the bigger scheme of things, now that he can control where Malibu’s wealthy arts community of Christians have their donation dollars redirected, he now has the most to lose. Pastors who don’t do as the wealthier givers imply them to do don’t last long. The reality of ministry is though men like his mentor, Rob McCoy, once shouted from the pulpit, «Keep your money and die with it,» McCoy now asks the same people for donations… there’s only one currency that keeps the lights of the church on and Prayer isn’t it.
One wealthy computer industry guy named Hans on staff is not enough.
He has a day job, so says LinkedIn. ‘Bout time.
Warm smile when you first meet him. But no, he’s not the guy from the Brady Bunch. 25-​year difference in age.
If you can out-​hustle Brian, (Match Stick Men), there is oppty here. Sorry, unfortunately, no matter what they say about God or the Bible, it is all about $ here.
I won’t get into the connections this place has to Alpha Dog, (the film starring Bruce Willis).