Editing David Ellefson (section)

===Christianity===
Ellefson, like his ex-bandmate [[Dave Mustaine]], is a committed Christian. "Well, I was actually brought up in a Christian household, so I have, you know, a pretty broad knowledge of it; [I had] strayed from it for quite a while, [but] now that I have children, I actually do go to church, so I've kinda sorta returned to it, you know?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hmmagazine.com/soandsosays/archives/000406.php?page=1 |title=HM Magazine |publisher=HM Magazine |access-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref> Ellefson further discussed his Christianity in a 2010 interview on [[Christian metal#Christian metal radio|The Full Armor of God Broadcast]] explaining "I've found that when you just suit up and show up and walk your talk instead of talking your talk all the time, that is often the best testimony!"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://podcast.fullarmorradio.com/2011/07/14/the-full-armor-of-god-broadcast-10th-anniversary-season-priemier.aspx |title=Full Armor of God Broadcast |publisher=Full Armor Radio |access-date=April 19, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203020930/http://podcast.fullarmorradio.com/2011/07/14/the-full-armor-of-god-broadcast-10th-anniversary-season-priemier.aspx |archive-date=December 3, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hmmagazine.com/exclusive/f5200508/index.php |title=HM – Internet Exclusives |publisher=Hmmagazine.com |access-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720033541/http://www.hmmagazine.com/exclusive/f5200508/index.php |archive-date=July 20, 2011 }}</ref>

In an article titled CODA – Ready for a MEGA Life, Ellefson indicated that in the fall of 2007 he began the new MEGA Life Ministries worship service in Scottsdale, AZ. "Oddly, the service has become one of my most rewarding and musically invigorating gigs I've ever had{{nbsp}}... a gig that literally landed in my lap and not something I had to chase down either. Not only are the parishioners respectful (no bar fights, spilled drinks and foul mouthed hecklers in the crowd like many secular gigs) but it's a musical event my whole family participates in. Plus, I was finally given the venue to put into practical application the very words I'd been trying to live by for many years which is 'Play music for God, not us'."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.megalifeministries.org/Portals/27/2321/54-CM%202008%2004%20jul-aug.pdf |title=megalifeaz.org |publisher=Megalifeministries.org |access-date=July 8, 2011 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Ellefson began studying for the ministry in the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]] through an extension program of [[Concordia Seminary]] in St. Louis.<ref>{{cite web|last=Townsend|first=Tim|title=Megadeth Bassist Studying For Lutheran Ordination at Concordia|url=http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/seminarians-they-are-even-megadeth-bassist/article_c71bc9b3-dd0d-5126-b2c1-0513931559bb.html|work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]|date=January 19, 2012|access-date=April 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Megadeth's David Ellefson Talks About Christian Rock|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-david-ellefson-talks-about-christian-rock-audio/|website=Blabbermouth.net|date=February 20, 2014|access-date=April 4, 2014}}</ref>