Bill Ellis - Riverside Community Church

I loved a lot of things that Bill Ellis had to say about the church and consumerism and also about the church and politics. I agreed a lot with him and had many of the same thoughts. And I can very much appreciate his desire to learn about the community that he is reaching and just the every changing culture and how the church should reach it. He seemed to be very up on the latest trends, but not carried away with them, but rather educate himself so that he could better reach his church. But also before you can appreciate that about him, I must respect his sacrificial attitude to go from a church of 700 where he was getting paid a great amount of money and was in a very comfortable position at that church . To a plant a home missions church, which is very difficult to do, especially at the time that he did it, I think that that is a very noble thing to do. And he didn’t give up on the church and grew it slowly, I think that that is awesome. Bill Ellis and his church are yet another church that I really love what they are doing with going to reach their own culture and realizing that they are missionaries to their own culture. I loved their go and be mentality. Another great church that is very missional and externally minded. What he said about if your church was removed from the community, who beside your attendees would miss it, really got me. I really think that is a great philosophy to live by when starting a church. I also agreed a lot with what he had to say about the church and politics and how the church can try to force its religion upon people, which it should never do.