Hillsong is a major dumpster fire. This is a story of a mecca church and its followers, a church that started small and became a global brand. I was introduced by two friends that I went to high school with, and they introduced me in the Whole Song, and that first day is the date that I have tattooed on my collar bone. Hillsong created a winning formula, a concert vibe. It looked and felt different from the traditional church that
I grew up in. Like it's at a bar. It appears unconventional, but at the court it's a Pentecostal church. It's a lesson in how to make religion cool. It's a lesson in power, money and abuse. I would like Hillsong to to stop existing, but even more than that, I would like for it to account for what it's done. I'm no Emmy would even I was a part of Hillsong Church, but I left. Now I'm telling my story. While Song started with a few followers in Australia and
now it's in more than thirty countries. Thousands of people say Whole Song brought them to Jesus. The message is simple, welcome home, you belong. I felt like I was building God's Church, and I felt like included and it felt like a family. I felt like a part of something, even just for the first time. Emotional, financial and sexual abuse are at the heart of the story, and star
preachers who thought they were untouchable. They never saw the worth in us, never suspected that we would say anything, or than anyone would listen. And where some of the loudest voices out here because we just saw so much because they never saw us, and they just felt free to just be bad actors. In this series, we get access to information hill Song never wanted the public to see,
and access to people prepared to speak out. I remember sometimes looking around and being like that, I get myself into The church says it's changed, but has it truly owned the past? And our Hillsong scandals a symptom of a deeper problem in Christianity. There's something much bigger than just this particular institution. In my opinion, it has everything to do with modern Christendom, especially within the evangelical world.
There's something really rotten at the core within evangelicalism. Listen to False Prophets starting February two on the I Heart Radio app Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts