Hillsong conference 2006
Sorry to be slow on the uptake on this, but Hillsong 2006 is up and running. Anyone who wants to post reviews, discussion or articles about the 2006 conference, do it in this thread (just so we can try to keep things together a bit).
Ta muchly.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
back to the agents of change discussion - if you want to see more about NCYC in Perth there’s a site - agentsofchange.org.au/007 - where we posted some articles during the convention
January 17th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Thank you for that.
Now that people have stopped being sick and I’ve finally got a day off, I can catch up with perusing stuff.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
In response to 80 above
I USED to attend SSC CLC…. here are some of my observations and experiences ( over an extended period)
1. Once when arriving in the carpark I was told which parking bay to occupy… and because I did not position the car exactly in the middle of the bay, I was was TOLD to park straight… I told the attendant to f… o..
Wrong of me I know, but it just came out. Sorry Mr attendant I know you were only following instructions from you superiors.
2. I was doing duty as a door greeter at some point and was TOLD that I was to say the following… ” Hi welcome to SSC CLC… may I show you where the toilets are…how bloody weird is that! Can you imagine some poor bastard arriving for the first time… Whats going on here, why do I need to know where the toilets are? What are they going to do to me tonight? He’d start shitting himself immediatley…without even hearing the offering sermon. Can you imagine walking up to door at Karrinyup Shopping Centre… Piss off I’ll find it myself.
3. Ps GK said the following one night during his offering blurb… “If you have not tithed and you have a need, don’t bother asking God in fact don’t even pray until you do! (tithe). He seemed pretty wound up that night. Perhaps he needed some spending money for an upcoming missions trip overseas..who knows. In any case this pissed me off immensley so I left the meeting. I later learned that GK’S philosophy is that God offends the mind to reveal the heart. Does God employ mafia tactics to get what belongs to Him anyway?
4. We were asked (TOLD) to purchase chairs for $20 each. The reason being that friends and family we were believing God would bring to church, would have a seat to occupy… putting your faith out?. They stuck the names of those people under the seats. A good ploy to get the congregation to finance increased seating in the auditorium. Why not be honest and just ask the people to make a voluntary donation for chairs.
5. Some leaders instructed various “dodgy” characters to sharpen up their dress code and in some cases to lose weight! Why? Is it because the image SSC CLC portrays is all important?… they want to attract millionaires, a meeting of candidate cell group leaders was once told.
I’ll post more later….
March 1st, 2007 at 2:37 am
“I was doing duty as a door greeter at some point and was TOLD that I was to say the following… ” Hi welcome to SSC CLC… may I show you where the toilets are…how bloody weird is that! ”
Ah, well you see..that’s where you don’t understand the wisdom of the Sunset Coast CLC leadership.
When I visited Sunset Coast …I snuck in too late to get the official greeting ..and that ended up costing me dearly, because when the service was giving me the shits ..I didn’t know where to go and throw up. You see, they’re thinking ahead.
It reminds me of an old school mate who’s now a pastor at a wanky church in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
He was being groomed for leadership by the cult-like American group Maranatha Christian Fellowship ..located in Carlton opposite Melbourne Uni.
It was a real shame when my nice normal old school friend started answering his home phone….’hello…Craig here….how may I bless you?’
‘Christian’ leaders can get young impressionable lads to do just about anything.
Of course those leaders are full of shit, but you don’t realise that until later in life.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:39 am
“I’ll post more later….”
Keep ‘em coming.
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Colour Your World Conference (Hillsong’s Womens Conference) is coming up in 2 weeks anybody going want to post your thoughts. I have been last 3 years but won’t be going this year. Jordan Rubin and the Makers Diet really didn’t do it for me last year. Besides I have a more worthy occupation this year I’m at uni.
Still observations would be appreciated.
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
What is the Makers Diet?
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Just another diet plan, this time touted as “Biblical” to get the Christian market.
Nothing new under the sun….
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Groan. Put some thin beautiful dolled up women on the stage as role models, and the diet books should sell like mad. Whatever happened to an emphasis on “man looks on the outer appearance, but God looks on the heart”?
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:40 pm
“the Makers Diet”
Is that where you only eat what God eats?
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Grace Required (306)
I am going to Colour Conference - First Timer!
I have been contemplating whether to go or not. Just don’t want to waste a good few days.
I have family & friends going who are all excited to be going…. I am a little skeptical of the whole thing… is it just me?
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Hi LFH
Well if you are a girly girl, can cope with the celebration of ditz and estrogen then its the place for you. If you are an avid observer of Princess Theology ( http://scc.typepad.com/scc_faculty_pentecostal_d/2006/06/princess_theolo.html) you’ll enjoy the show.
However you are committed to go. My personal preference of key note speakers is Marilyn Skinner. She is not above putting the boot into to Hillsong culture on their home ground. I loved some of her digs last year. Thing is you have to be aware of what she is saying… I swear a lot of people didn’t see it.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Thanks Grace Required. I’ll tolerate the “princess” theology and be aware!
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
“I am going to Colour Conference - First Timer!
I have been contemplating whether to go or not. Just don’t want to waste a good few days.
I have family & friends going who are all excited to be going…. I am a little skeptical of the whole thing… is it just me?”
Signposts has a fine tradition of cub reporting.
Feel free to file a report here during the conference.
I’m particularly interested in the number of girly-girl squeals heard during the event.
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
dib dib, dob dob
I wonder if anyone else saw this a few years ago at colour. At the end of the last session, it was a hot night, and all the girls walked out into the carpark to watch a big fireworks display and have supper. As they walked through the doors everyone was given a magnum, no, not the gun, the icecream. Before long there were hundreds of gorgeous things standing there in the sultry evening, gazing up at explosions of ever increasing colour and intensity whilst exercising the salacious and complicated oral dexterity required to enjoy a magnum . Visions of tv ads for magnums were swirling through my mind as the feminine gasps of wonder at the visual extravaganza unfolding up above filled the air, the exquisite symbolism of this sight was …ahem..a little distracting.
I always wondered if this sublime embellishment at the end of a week of girl power was Teenangel’s personal joke or a deliberate attempt to sex up the church. Probably it was just fun and only my own imagination saw anything else. I’m sure she became one for injecting a bit of very subtle eroticism into the proceedings, not often, but it would slip out every now and then. Surely I wasn’t the only one to sense the irony, was this a metaphor for the real power of a posse of modern sexy kingdom gals in support of their menfolk.
One thing was for sure, it was an unforgetable slice of church life for me. Before Bruce jumps on me, of course I know I probably read too much into the things I observe and store away for possible regurgitation to paper at a later date, but there you go, I’m allowed !
Cub report over Akela.
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:25 pm
good grief mungo, get a grip.
Or should I say, loosen your grip?????
March 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
LOL Mungo!
It sounds like New years at Hugh Hefners!
March 4th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I think to sexualise a load of women eating ice cream is a little off personally.
Too many porno mags Mungo?
March 4th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
“or should I say, loosen your grip????”
then
“I think to sexualise……ra ra ra”
The pot calling the kettle black?????
March 4th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
unfortunately there’s no emoticon for “tongue in cheek”.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
re 318
jeez, lighten up dido, fair dinkum.
‘I think to sexualise a load of women eating ice cream is a little off personally.’
you obviously never heard the famous ‘new boots’ sermon.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:13 am
err, yeah, ok.
try reading 320 agian mungo.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:17 am
sorry dido, I don’t get it, bit thick.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:54 am
lol… it’s ok. It’s Monday morning!
March 5th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Aaah, Monday, pastors day off. The church has to run itself today. The office workers will have a relaxed time while the boss is at the golf course or the beach or maybe down the real estate checking out a new investment opportunity, maybe take a run up the freeway on the bike, blow a few cobwebs out, think of a few new catchy phrases. life is gooood.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Apologies if this has been posted before, but I found an excellent youtube video for any aspiring Houston’s out there. After watching BH for the last few years whilst getting ready to head out each Sunday morning this video pretty much sums up all I’ve gleaned in a few years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuvw6kc0MVM
enjoy and get practising!
March 12th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
is that brain huston?
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I’ve been looking for this on the web for awhile and I’ve finally found it.
It’s Matthias Media’s article on the 2006 Hill$ong Conference.
http://media.rechorded.com/docs/eBrfg340.pdf
(article starts pg 11)
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Pages 16 and 17 pack a punch in particular….
Interesting…
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Thanks for that, Lance. That’s a fantastic little article that should be read by, well, a whole lot more people than just us.