David Crosby Jr. Pocono Community Church

I loved the focus of Dave Crosby’s church, to reach out and their commitment to reach the lost. I love their so practical ways to reach the community and just show love to the community. They had a vision of commitment to the lost and that’s what they focused on, their vision, reaching the lost. Again I saw a humbleness in a great leader, one of the main things I have been seeing over the past weeks in this class. He gave no credit to a specific recipe to doing things in the church or a specific model. But instead just want back to basics and relied on them, things like prayer. They built the church out of prayer and a love for the lost and love for people to grow in their relationship with Christ. One thing that he also said that encouraged me was that there are no philosophies that are the same in church planting and that any philosophy can be used as long as it is Biblical. I think that is important to be realized in church planting today, that with all the books out there and models of church planting and growth. He realized that no set model was to be relied upon, but only reliance on God and soaking the church in prayer. The idea of having a very diverse church I think is a good idea today in trying to reach many different people. The idea of having 33, 33 and 33 percents of people in the church, of those investigating Christianity, those just saved and those deep in their Christian walk. People today are looking for ways to incorporating all three different groups and reach each effectively. But I think that first needs to be an awareness and intentional focus on each group balanced in their message. I have been seeing humbleness in many speakers these past few weeks and have been realizing that that is a key aspect in ministry and especially in church planting. And also the need to love the community and reach them first before building their own church buildings even is a great idea.