![]() Everyone was either crying or on the ground shaking and I simply turned around and walked away. Which of course is OK but I remember being invited to a few Hillsong events here. And with the Hillsong movement so strong here, I could'nt neither resist to watch the documentary nor recognize the pattern of brainwashing as described. I have grown up being educated in a private christian school in Sweden. And, what's happening now? Where is the current staff and administration and how they're changing things? I want to hear more. The labor they ask for FOR FREE from students that they really should be paying for. An episode going into more of the sexual abuse and cover up. ![]() I feel this could be followed up by several episodes that goes into the details and proof behind their lavish spending, or what the tithes actually goes to (can you say Scientology? They literally buy buildings for no reason). Financial corruption, sex & labor abuse issues, historically dealing with everything wrong in their church empire with cover-ups and more corruption- I feel like this is a very good start to a much bigger picture. Not okay! Any organization that uses volunteers so much that they "need" them time to get them paid. The ask for people to 'serve' only to pressure them so much that they're exhausted. And, this documentary showed that all over the board there are issues in nearly every main area for the church. Any church or any organization for that matter that gets So huge is going to have issues. ![]() That's what has happened with Hillsong and so many other large churches. When the church people begin to worship their pastor and leadership, this is also a problem. When a church is more concerned with how their "campus" looks than how their city looks, that's where the problem is. Unfortunately, many times, this just isn't the case. I don't have a problem with churches finding avenues to increase income when they're actually doing good work to help the less fortunate people in the world. That part of the doc didn't really affect me so much, though I can see how it would bother people. I still listen to them from time to time and I'm grateful for it. I also have to add that the music from Hillsong has really touched so many people around the world, myself included. It shows how the culture from the "top" is inoculated in all of the other branches regardless of geography. I thought the story was well told, including different perspectives from real people at different locations. I've been a part of two different ones in the past 15 years and it's the same story as far as the money and notoriety, the covering up of misdoings, etc. It's also a story about most mega churches and churches who strive to be mega themselves.
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