It’s huge, it’s hip, it’s Pentecostal – and it’s snapping up celebrity worshippers as if the world depended on it, headed by its biggest convert, Justin Bieber
Ever on the lookout for the perfect facility to address my spiritual education and showbiz needs – and not in that order – I am GRIPPED by news of the Hillsong church in America’s Los Angeles. Hillsong is a Pentecostal mega-church, whose first branch was in Australia in some kind of corrugated-iron warehouse. So far, so Lady Marchmain.
I’m kidding, of course – the aesthetic at Hillsong is far from popish, with services consisting of Christian rock music in concert-like spaces, attended by young dressed-down people who then leave Yelp reviews about how much awesome Holy Spirit was there, and how good the coffee was and so on. We’ll boggle at some of those in due course.
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