Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed

I didn't feel like this documentary was very well put together. The people they interviewed was more about quantity and not quality.

When there was an interesting storyline, it quickly moved on to the next topic.

This film details the dehumanizing descent of Hillsong's evangelical entrepreneurship journey, but it's not exposing a "scandal", it's simply revealing the culture within organized religion, over and over once again. Abuse, gaslighting, victim blaming, public shaming - all are elements within not only this mega church culture, but can also found within the smaller, localized, wannabe mega church. Because this is the model - the blueprint. The only thing sensational about this story is the name Hillsong and the fame of Carl Lentz.

It feels incomplete. No info about how much money Carl, Brian or the church made. Is it exempt from taxes, if so, how did they manage and go about with the IRS? Nothing about Bonnie, Brian's wife or Carl's wife, how did these two profit from the church? Apparently Bonnie was preaching. Where is Carl these days, where did he end up and with what fortune? It's not very in depth. They idea was good, the beginning was promising and then it just felt like it lacked in information. It needed more.

Being a person that grew up on churches myself I found this series to be really accurate and helpful for those who are blind enough not to understand the problem with mega churches like Hillsong.

It explained almost every single problem with this company. And that right there gained my respect.

This documentary was about the mega church Hillsong. The entire documentary seem to focus around the fact that the church exploits its members for money and personal gain while the heads of the church behave in a completely unchristian manner. This is not new information! I assumed everyone on earth knew that these type of organizations were all about the money... I don't mean to sound anti-religious, but I am strongly opposed to these massive, cult-like organizations.

I found most of the testimonials in this documentary to be a bit whiny. Perhaps I was being too judgmental of them for being so naive , especially after having so many examples of where these large religious organizations abuse their authority over the parishioners. All things being equal, this want a bad series but don't expect any sort of conclusion. It's essentially 3 hours of ppl talking about being duped by con men in the name of god...