Headlines

WOW… someone just sent me a link to the Sydney Morning Herald, online, and there’s Bobbie and I on the front page! I’m sure the photo of me is straight out of the 1980’s or at best, the mid 90’s and Bobbie looks like she is about to get hit by a truck!!

The headline is just that… a headline and it goes down the line of Hillsong ’selling itself’ and ‘franchising’.

Here’s what I find interesting, almost every Christian denomination I know levies their affiliated churches with ‘dues’ (a percentage of their offerings) but Hillsong charges NOTHING to those churches who are part of our greater family and carry the Hillsong name. We have only ever sought to resource them and help them.

I am glad that within this article itself, the journalist gave me a fair hearing and quoted me in context - as this is not always the case.

As written in the article: “Our heart is to bless and build churches through example, encouragement, and strategic partnerships and we believe it is right for churches to endeavor to reach and help people wherever there is need.”

To me, the church is all about GOD and PEOPLE and perhaps the day may come when we do have to consider how to pay for the administration of these relationships, but at this point that is not so.

Some call it franchising, but I prefer to see it as partnering to be more effective in bringing the good news of Jesus to a desperately hurting world.

Have a blessed day,