Bill Ellis

To get people to come to church, Bill and his wife started knocking on doors and inviting them to church. This and advertising in the Penny Saver were uneffective methods, but when Bill's wife started making friends at her children's school, that was a better way to get word of mouth out.

Part of the church's success had to do with location. The church grew 100 people when they moved to Oakmont. http://www.riversideconnect.com/ In order to be missionaries to our home land, we should learn how to integrate with our culture and have a go and be mentality rather than a come and see mentality.

Bill's church has approximately two routes in which they deliver meals to 20 people. I think that this is a great idea - it's almost as if the church is providing for part of the family, which is what it should be. This is more than once a year, but it's continual and support will not stop unless (i'm sure) they ask for it to.



There are two ways of understanding what the church is. Those include the functional view and the incarnational view (God's place or God and His people). Our challenge is to help people who go to church turn into people who see themselves as the church in order to put God on display to the world.

Consumerism and discipleship are at odds with each other. Weakest area in David Crosby Jr.'s church was discipleship and his church was the attractional church. Jesus didn't ask us simply to believe in Him, He asked us also to follow Him. The Gospel is more than just getting to Heaven...Amen.

Just a note: For some reason, I wasn't as captivated this week. It was very hard for me to pay attention and I'm not sure why - I have been getting enough sleep, so I don't know. I liked that there was a simple golf series clip that was shown. I personally think that movies like that may be a step backward simply because of their content BUT the video wasn't geared simply to me, so I think it was a good idea.

Books: The Simple Way, Jesus for President, Myth of a Christian Nation