It’s not just Al Qaeda that is taking over in London. At the Dominion Theatre in the London theater
district is Hillsong, an enthusiastic church for twenty-something Brits who are in to
“praying and swaying.” And they push contributions:
“God wants to give you great riches, [they’ll] say, but you’ve got to prove
first that you’re willing to give to Him.”
Mary Wakefield is not amused.
It’s what I assumed I’d never see in England, the full-on, Texas-style health and wealth gospel with all the trimmings:
plastic cash buckets, talk of leadership and empowerment.
Didn’t you know darling? Sociologist Rodney Stark has found that high-cost churches are also
high-commitment churches.
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