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Chris Elrod (born February 28, 1966) is the lead pastor and founder of Compass Point Church[1], a Christian community of faith in Lakeland, Florida. A pastor, speaker, blogger[2] and writer, Elrod is best known as a sucessful Christian comedian that toured extensively throughout North America from 1990 to 2000. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Biography
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and graduate of East Texas Baptist University, Elrod also lived in West Monroe, Louisiana, Colorado Springs, Colorado and the suburbs of Orlando, Florida. , : Port City , River City : The Next Great City of the South United States Louisiana Caddo 117. ...
East Texas Baptist University or ETBU is a fully accredited private Christian university associated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas in Marshall, Texas. ...
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Getting his start as a Christian comedian during his college days, Elrod toured throughout the United States and Canada apearing at churches, comedy clubs, college campuses, Christian music festivals and television[3]. Represented by the Ambassador Speaker's Bureau[4], he averaged over 200 speaking engagements each year and shared the stage with such diverse Christian artists as Kathy Troccoli, The Newsboys and Larnelle Harris. He also spoke in hundreds of prisons throughout the U.S. as a platform artist for Operation Starting Line[5], a ministry outreach of Prison Fellowship. Kathleen Colleen Troccoli (born June 28, 1958) is a contemporary Christian singer, author, and speaker. ...
The Newsboys are a Contemporary Christian Music rock/pop band formed in the late 80s around a core of John James and Peter Furler. ...
Larnelle Harris is a Gospel singer, songwiter and recording artist. ...
Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) comprised of national Prison Fellowship (PF) organisations from 112 countries. ...
Ater leaving a full-time speaking ministry in 2000 Elrod served as associate pastor in Southern Baptist Convention churches throughout Central Florida, including Dr. Al Mohler's home church, Southside Baptist Church[6]. In 2004 Elrod founded a Bible study in a north Lakeland apartment complex, which quickly grew into an official church plant for the Florida Baptist Convention. Today Compass Point Church attracts mainly young, artistic 20-somethings and is considered a portable church. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ...
Over the last year Elrod has become known as a church leadership futurist and amateur missiologist through his blog[7]. His posts about the future of church planting and pastoral leadership have begun to attract a sizeable following from leaders within the emerging church movement. Recently, a quote from one of his blog postings about niche churches ended up in an Associated Press[8] article that was picked up by dozens of media outlets throughout North America, including The Washington Post, Forbes Magazine Online, Fox News[9] and dozens of newspapers[10]. Futurists are those who look to and provide analysis of the future. ...
The emerging church conversation†is a controversial[1] 21st century Christian movement whose participants seek to engage postmodern people, especially the unchurched and post-churched. ...
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Family Elrod and his wife Denise have no children and live in Lakeland, Florida.
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