LayGuy

OK,

I’m back from Hillsong Conference 2007 and I’m pumped! But I’m not your typical Pentecostal, “I’ll believe in everything that’s thrown at me cause it’s all about me,” kind of guy. At the conference, I saw the crowds go nuts whenever the speakers “proclaimed” blessings on them and a deathly silence hovered after the more “humble” messages.

I saw the likes of Garry Skinner sit in utter defiance of the words of TD Jakes as he bellowed out the typical, “God has a new opportunity waiting for you” type of teaching. For those of you that don’t know Skinner, and not many would cause he just keeps his head down and labours in the Kingdom, he is responsible for the Watoto Ministries - more of which I will elaborate later.

There was heaps of great things at the conference - and heaps of disgusting things. Overall I left a little shattered over the nature and health of the the “church” on earth. I am not a naysayer where I like to point my finger at everyone doing things differently to the way I like to do things - not at all.

I love diversity - and Hillsong 2007 was pregnant with diversity. Hillsong’s strength is in it’s worship. Speaker Louie Giglio challenged the crowd to raise another level by combining worship of the lips to sharing of your goods (Heb 13:15-16).

I have been bed riddled for almost 3 days with a flu since I got back from Hillsong and haven’t had much time to do anything. Add to this that my blog became, once again, corrupted in it’s programming, I had to relaunch layguy.com. But rest assured. I will post heaps about this conference.

Let me just say that John Bevere and Louie Giglio shone like stars at this conference. But people like Jentezen Franklin and TD Jakes, for the lack of a better word, sucked to a degree as they lacked any substance other than the “God has an opportunity waiting for you” message that seriously entered one ear and left scurrying through the other.

Tags: hillsong, hillsong conference, td jakes, jentezen franklin, garry skinner, louie giglio, john bevere

LayGuy Edit (July 11)
I’ve now been convicted from a number of different fronts about the critical nature of this post and for this I must apologise. Without making an excuse, my head was exploding with the flu when I wrote the post and frustration was running rife as I typed away.I would like to say that nothing was disgusting and nobody sucked to the extent I mentioned above. Simply, there were some things I wasn’t thrilled about when compared to the things that were fantastic. I will elaborate on this in a future post, but I just wanted to set the record straight.