Brand new cars are their modern equivalent of 5 loaves and two fishes :)
I guess eternal life doesn't count for too much any more... LOL ...
My wife and I just returned from Corpus two weeks ago after spending the winter there working on a project for the city. We attended the Bay Area Fellowship while in Corpus Christi.
The music was not to our taste but Bill Cornelius is a genuine, some might say, conservative preacher of the Word. He came to CC 9 years ago and started a Bible study in his one bedroom apartment. The growth in numbers from that time has been remarkable.
As a very conservative Christian, I am not a big fan of much of what goes on in the Name of Christ today, but part of that is because of the generation in which I was raised.
A lot of the mega-churches today have made their main Sunday gatherings a center for evangelism rather than ministering to the needs of the local believers. The latter emphasis takes place in smaller groups throughout the week.
If I was in charge, would I take this tact? Probably not, but like D. L. Moody once said to a critic, “I like my way of winning people to Christ rather than your way that doesn’t.”