In 2009, 79.1 per cent of its registered worshippers voted for their church to be consumed by Brian and Bobbie Houston’s proliferating empire of attractive pastors, flash millennials and aspirational battlers.
With kindred anticipation, we march towards a gargantuan franchise of Hillsong, formerly known as Garden City Christian Church. The only women within the precinct are directing traffic through a packed car park with blissful grins and hand gestures. In the middle of November 2019, as Australia burns with biblical infernos, a couple of thousand Pentecostal men are assembling in the southern suburbs of Brisbane to reach for salvation from loneliness and sin. It is difficult to convey the apocalyptic optimism of a Hillsong church congregation about to witness Brian Houston preaching in the flesh. Brian Houston’s Pentecostal movement in an age of climate change and coronavirus
