Posted on 02/18/2018 2:11:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Australians in the form of the global Hillsong churches, are coming. Actually, they are already here.
Let's take stock.
Just after Memorial Day weekend 2016, the massive Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) invited Hillsong church to begin its own channel, calling it the Hillsong Channel. I have been watching them since then and lead global pastor Brian C. Houston's preaching for a number of years now on his own half-hour show. He is better than most TV preachers. For starters, his accent is charming, and he's needlessly a little defensive about it. He elides the "r," as in chu'ch, just as one example. It doesn't sound exactly British, but it is not American, either. It's proudly Australian. Houston is also positive – and here he is unusual for a man of English heritage. In my experience, Aussies, Kiwis, and Britons can be sour and negative among church folks. In contrast, Americans are optimistic and bubbly. And so his upbeat slogan fits an American outlook: "Your best is yet to come!" Finally, to match the slogan, he has a nice smile. Americans like big smiles.
The imaging and edits at Hillsong Channel are first-rate. The creative team behind their promos – cool trombones and syncopated drumbeats, guys! – is modern and upbeat. Their montages of white horses, people on beaches or in church with their hands raised, of the Christ statue in Brazil, of people smiling and dancing and leaping and hugging, and solemn worshipers – are all marvelous and attractive. It projects the youthful cool factor. And of course, their worship ministry, their mainstay, is of the highest quality.
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Hillsong has had an influence on a lot of major young pop culture icons...so all the power to them.
in drawing young celebrities into church and to Christ* I mean
Prosperity gospel.
You lost me at TBN.
Justin Bieber is one of them, ‘nuff said.
Does it stick to Jesus’s teachings of sin and grace and heaven and hell? We have too many churches that don’t, and so, are not Christian.
Blab it and Grab It!
How many jets does He own?
Yeah, gram’s watches that channel; has it on for background noise.
Their main radio outlet:
K-LOVE = Hillsong Barney and the Spasmodic Xylophones
Dead To Self Radio (D2S) delivers high-quality Christian/positive rock and metal from the 1980s to today.
I don’t see how Christians could have problems with this:
Worthy Is The Lamb - Hillsong Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6oBxqDoq4
The Potter’s Hand — Darlene Zschech lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBnyosHtF2A
I’d much rather young people enjoy this instead of a lot of the other rubbish they listen to.
Hillsong has some sketchy beliefs, so I’m told, but the songs that their groups have on Christian radio are top notch.
Hillsong United’s “Touch the Sky” is one of my favorites.
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