Bayless Conley

Bayless Conley is an American gospel pastor and television personality who hosts Answers With Bayless Conley on television.

Answers is a weekly program that can be found on CNBC in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and on other local and regional channels in other places.[1] Answers is broadcast in Mexico through Genesis Television.

Bayless's Answers program seeks to bring "practical teaching of the Bible to its viewers in a non-religious way." As a recovering drug addict and alcoholic, Conley has stated that he found God over 35 years ago through a 12-year-old Christian boy.[2]

Bayless also founded Cottonwood Church.[3][4][5] Bayless and the church notably had to fight local authorities to build a new church building in the early 2000s. The case went to Federal Court, which ruled that the city of Cypress was illegally exercising eminent domain. Cottonwood Church won the case and retained the land, but later resold it to the city due to a better offer for the larger plot of land nearby.[6]

The church sold its 18 acres (73,000 m2) to the city and moved onto 28 acres (110,000 m2) that are part of a defunct golf course nearby. That property will cost more than the original 18-acre (73,000 m2) site.

Bayless was hospitalized after a boating accident in late January 2014.[7] He has since recovered and returned to ministry.

References

  1. ^ "Broadcast Schedule". Answers with Bayless Conley. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  2. ^ https://www.answersbc.org/about/, About
  3. ^ http://cottonwood.org/
  4. ^ "Cottonwood Church | Bringing a Living Jesus to a Dying World".
  5. ^ Dana Parsons (November 29, 2000). "Righteous (but Restrained) Indignation". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2010. Pastor Bayless Conley, the dynamic, 45-year-old Cottonwood pastor who turned Bible study in his home in the early 1980s to a 4,000- member church...
  6. ^ "PROFILE: CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA'S LAND BATTLE WITH COTTONWOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER". National Public Radio. June 30, 2002. Retrieved January 26, 2010.("The Cottonwood Christian Center is bursting at the seams. The non-denominational church can hold 700 people but has 4,000 parishioners. To accommodate them all, it holds seven services each week, taxing the vocal cords of senior pastor Bayless Conley. ...Last week the Cottonwood Christian Center sought a federal injunction to block the city from taking the land while the case proceeds in court.")
  7. ^ "Pastor Bayless Conley in Critical Condition After Boating Accident".


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