At the end of the last episode, the preacher sneaker guy says something to the effect of ‘it’s frustrating because the majority of Christians and churches aren’t like this but because Hillsong is so famous…’
Those former volunteers and students could have literally been talking about any mega church in the US. Because every single one abuses ppls time, and finances and emotionally manipulates in the Same. Exact. Way. 2/ #EmptyThePews
#Hillsong is not an anomaly. It is in fact Best Practices for the rest of white evangelical churches. They wrote the book. They laid the foundation. And every spirit filled, Bible believing church in this country has enthusiastically replicated the same system.
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No, there are not pedophiles in every church. But for the xians who watch it, forgiveness will again be weaponized to ignore pain and trauma of survivors. And at the end of the day, ‘but look how many have come to Christ!!’ and ‘god uses broken vessels!’ 5/ #EmptyThePews
But the white evangelicals who say “not my church” “not my Jesus”- rest assured, yes their church. Yes, their Jesus. Same gospel. Same system.
I cannot emphasize this enough: #Hillsong is not a fluke, it’s been seen as best practices for decades. 6/6 #EmptyThePews
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