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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 Hillsong? Michele, life has been distracting!! These mid-year breaks are good and bad. For instance, the Mighty Demons were invincible before they had a two-week break from football, then they come back after relaxing and play against Gary's Brisbane Lions as if they're still on holidays. Gone from mighty to not-so-mighty in the space of three weeks, all on account of two weeks relaxing! Which is how it seems with me, stop the pressure of weekly BSF and serious relaxing kicks in to the detriment of everything including blogging! But the news about Australia's politicians flocking to Hillsong, to win the religious right's vote, inspires me to pick myself up off the couch... And try to post a picture here (caption "Member for Greenway, Louise Markus, sat next to the Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and, in the background, Treasurer Peter Costello") Here's some snippets: Treasurer Peter Costello last night soaked up a rapturous welcome from 20,000 followers of the Hillsong Church in Sydney's Superdome. To the delight of the congregation at the opening of the Sydney-based Pentacostalist group's annual conference, Mr Costello shared the limelight with NSW Premier Bob Carr and federal ministers Alexander Downer, Kevin Andrews and Peter Dutton. Also seeking to connect with a crowd featuring an oversupply of that all-important political player, the aspirational voter, were NSW Christian Democrats MP Fred Nile, Liberal MP David Clarke and other state parliamentarians, including Hillsong member Louise Markus, the member for Greenway. Hillsong is reportedly the country's fastest-growing congregation, as traditional Christian churches languish. Hillsong has gone international, taking its rock and roll Christianity to a 5000-strong congregation - mostly backpackers from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - in London's West End. It has 2500 members in Kiev and a new chapter in Paris. And another newspaper article "Politicians flock to Hillsong conference" states that NSW premier Bob Carr embraced Hillsong's "prosperity gospel" and its style of worship: "I like the idea of Christianity shorn of its medieval accretions. I like the idea of each believer reading the Bible and finding his or her path to individual salvation. I also like the spontaneity and informality of Hillsong's worship. It's actually very Australian." Just what we need - each believer "finding his or her path to individual salvation" and a form of "very Australian" worship. Look out world, you are in desperate need of being saved from that! # posted by geoff @ 3:01 pm 0 comments
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