Brian Knorr - Mountaintop Assembly

Brian Knorr is another church planter in the Penn –Del district that started his church from scratch with no mother church or anything, no community contacts or anything like that whatsoever. Brian Knorr and Mountaintop Assembly of God is yet another example of how being connected to the community and having contacts is so important in church planting. When starting the church, I wonder how it may have been a lot different starting if they had contacts in the community. They seemed to have challenges in finding a building and all with a lot of disagreements with the school that they were trying to rent from. Especially in this community where a lot of people didn’t respect a church that did not have their own church building. I think that a lot of people like Brian Knorr are realizing that they need more relationships with people outside the church, for many reasons. One that it is healthy and we are called to witness and be a light to the world. And secondly when growing a church or planting a church, people don’t always want to just go to a church, unless the church is doing something for the community. People no longer want to hear just what the church says, they want a reason why they should listen to them. They don’t only want to hear they want to hear and see today. I think that in Brian Knorr’s position having a church full of people that have never really been churched before, have a challenge and a great opportunity as well. That they have a great opportunity to reach those and train them correctly in the Bible and they don’t really have any previous bad experiences in church or have been taught false doctrines. And at the same time can be frustrating if you are used to preaching in a church where for the most part the congregation are disciple Christians. I think it is a great opportunity for them.