Bayless' ''Answers'' program is said 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.<ref>[http://www.answersbc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=83 Answers With Bayless Conley], About Us</ref>
Bayless also leads [[Cottonwood Church]].<ref name="LAT-1">{{cite news | url= http://cottonwood.org/, Cottonwood Church was established on August 14th, 1983, as a nondenominational Christian church. Cottonwood began as a small church meeting in a Fountain Valley storefront, but moved after four months to another storefront located on Katella Avenue in Los Alamitos, California. From 1983 to 1989, the church grew from 50 to 650 people in attendance each Sunday morning.On August 14th, 1989 Cottonwood made its home on Sausalito Street in the City of Los Alamitos, near a residential neighborhood. The church has grown from 650 to over 5000 people in attendance each Sunday morning .url=http://cottonwood.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101&Itemid=106 [[Los Alamitos, California]]. |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/64808231.html?dids=64808231:64808231&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+29%2C+2000&author=DANA+PARSONS&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Righteous+(but+Restrained)+Indignation&pqatl=google | title= Righteous (but Restrained) Indignation | author= Dana Parsons | publisher=''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' | date= November 29, 2000 | accessdate=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...")</ref> Bayless and the church notably had to [[Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act#Cottonwood Christian Center v. Cypress Redevelopment Agency|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.<ref name="npr-1">{{cite news | url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NR&d_origin=transcripts&z=NR&p_theme=nr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F82C70654E6EC33&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | title= PROFILE: CYPRESS, CALIFORNIA'S LAND BATTLE WITH COTTONWOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER | author= | publisher=''[[National Public Radio]]'' | date= June 30, 2002 | accessdate=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.")</ref>
The church sold its {{convert|18|acre|m2}} to the city and moved onto {{convert|28|acre|m2}} that are part of a defunct golf course nearby. That property will cost more than the original {{convert|18|acre|m2|adj=on}} site.
