Don’t Be Confused: Zoe Church, Which Is Modeled After the New-Style Evangelical Church, Hillsong

megaphone-2

Advisory: Be careful of what you read on social media. The algorithms used by these platforms have no regard for Biblical truth. They target your emotions to keep you engaged on their site so their advertisers can drop more ads. These platforms exist to enrich their stockholders. Consider God’s promise to Believers in James 1:5, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”

Featured Story

When actor Chris Pratt went on The Late Showa couple weeks ago, he casually name-dropped “the Daniel Fast,” a 21-day diet based on the Bible, which he said he learned about through his pastor at Zoe Church. This comment about his church and the rest of the conversation about his faith got Ellen Page’s attention.”Oh. K. Um. But his church is infamously anti LGBTQ so maybe address that too?” Page wrote on Twitter, referring to Hillsong, another celebrity-friendly megachurch, which Pratt used to attend. Two days later, she tweeted: “If you are a famous actor and you belong to an organization that hates a certain group of people, don’t be surprised if someone simply wonders why it’s not addressed. Being anti-LGBTQ is wrong, there aren’t two sides. The damage it causes is severe.”

Chris Pratt pushed back against fellow actor Ellen Page’s assertion his church is anti-LGBT. 

“It has recently been suggested that I belong to a church which ‘hates a certain group of people’ and is ‘infamously anti –LGBTQ,’” Pratt responded ina post on Instagram. “Nothing could be further from the truth. I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone.”

Not according to Page.

The controversy started when Pratt appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” where he was promoting his upcoming movie “The Lego Movie 2.” Colbert started by bantering back and forth with the actor about Pratt’s pet sheep, going to the gym, and then Pratt’s new fast, inspired by his pastor at church.

Pratt attends Los Angeles’ Zoe Church, which is modeled after the new-style evangelical church: Hillsong. According to media outlets, Zoe’s stance on the LGBT community is unclear. However, the pastor of Zoe Chad Veach did make a film about “sexual brokenness.” 

Affiliate Links

How Christian Relationships Thrive

According to the Gospel Herald it includes individuals sharing “their own experience with sexual brokenness, from porn addiction to same-sex attraction and infidelity, and overcoming the shame and condemnation that follows.”  

Hillsong though has been accused of being anti-LGBT. That church is a place of worship to many celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Nick Jonas.

There have been several articles written about Hillsong’s anti-LGBT views including its support of conversion therapy.

 Its senior pastor, Brian Houston, has written that he loves all people: “I love and accept people on a personal level and if I lived next to a gay couple I would treat them with the same embrace I would any other neighbor because – surprise, surprise – not all my neighbors think like me.”

This news has lots of people wondering: What’s the deal with Zoe Church and why is it so controversial? Here’s what you need to know about Zoe Church, the Hillsong-adjacent, Hollywood hipster church that Pratt and others flock to — plus, what we can glean about the church’s political stance.

In 2014, a charismatic pastor named Chad Veach moved from Seattle to Los Angeles, and a year later founded Zoe Church, modeled after the megachurch Hillsong, where he used to preach. Veach’s family was very involved in ministry growing up: his father ran a church, and his siblings went on to become pastors, too. He’s written a few books, one of which is about raising his daughter who has a rare brain condition. Veach is also tight with Justin Bieber; the pair met through a mutual megachurch friend, and Veach even went on tour with Bieber briefly.

Page called out Pratt for supporting Zoe, it brought several concerns about the church’s stance on LGBTQ issues to the forefront. In the past, Veach has been cagey about Zoe Church’s political views, telling the New York Times that he’s “a Bible guy,” when asked about abortion rights. “Maybe, just what we grew up in, it’s, like, you don’t bring politics into the church. We’re here to preach the good news. We’re here to bring hope to humanity. We’re here to talk about God. This is not the place for a political agenda,” he said. When it comes to “lifestyle stuff,” Veach told The Christian Post in a 2014 interview that he lets Jesus deal with it. (You might recall that Hillsong’s leader, Brian Houston, infamously said: “We do not affirm a gay lifestyle.”) However, in 2017, Veach served as the executive producer for a film about people who “have struggled with ‘sexual brokenness,'” which included “same-sex attraction.”

What do Hillsong NYC, Vous Church, Churchome and Zoe Church have in common besides Justin Bieber’s sporadic presence at their services? All four churches hail from the same theological tradition, have lead pastors around the same age, and have a dizzying social media presence.

“Instagram built our church,” says Chad Veach of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, California. ?

All hailing from the Pentecostal tradition, a denomination which sticks to pretty conservative views when it comes to hot-button social issues such as homosexuality and abortion, these churches have managed to walk a very curious road of appealing to the broader culture. Their pastors have also managed to avoid directly answering questions about their positions on tricky topics. Their aim is to reach “those far from God,” including celebrities and their fans. Source

Trending Authors

Christian Authors who Speak Biblical Truth

While there are differences between the four churches, they are most similar in their message to the people they’re trying to reach: We won’t ask you questions about your lifestyle. Just come to church. Judging by their social media pages, the key to appealing to culture is to make the church look fun and hipster.

Trendy churches have taken the place in Los Angeles that was once occupied by exclusive bars and nightclubs. Where you had Paris Hilton falling out of Les Deux in the Noughties, this decade has seen the likes of Kourtney Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Chris Pratt papped leaving a Sunday morning worship at the likes Hillsong or Zoe.

These churches might look hip and progressive because of their Instagram accounts, tattoo pastors and ripped jeans, leather jacket-wearing followers – but there are worrying narratives under the surface.

StevieRay Hansen
HNewsWire Editor
www.HNewsWire.com

John Wesley who said that what we tolerate in our generation, will be embraced by the next. Wesley is 100% correct! We are living in sick times.

HNewsWire- “All political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” Just look at some of our modern-day examples: torture is “enhanced interrogation techniques”; murder is “collateral damage”; the aggression initiation of war is a “pre-emptive strike”; the theft of taxpayers’ money is a “bailout”, and the theft of depositors’ money in a bank is a “haircut” or “bail-in”.In a blatant example of Newspeak, the New World Order controllers (through the psychiatric DSM V) have tried to rename pedophiles as “minor-attracted persons” and redefine pedophilia as a “sexual orientation”. This makes no sense since sexual orientation has to do with gender, not age, with whether you are attracted to males or females, not how old they are. There are even organizations (like B4UAct.org) which are claiming that pedophiles are being unfairly stigmatized for their feelings! Psychiatry, it should also be noted, has a history of inventing fictitious diseases such as ADHD (as admitted by its inventor on his deathbed by Leon Eisenberg).

Note from StevieRay Hansen: I tend to be very vocal about ADHD, it was only when I surrender to Christ, I became complete, the fight is real, I believe the difference is how we fight these battles….

It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated.

Children are being misplaced or lost in our foster care system, we must demand more openness and accountability from each state.
If you have information or believe there is a child in danger that’s being exploited please contact 127 Faith Foundation
[email protected]
The 127 Faith Foundation

Please help me help these kids(orphans) that are in trouble, PLEASE 80% of the book sales goes directly to https://www.the127.org

HNewsWire Radio

3.8K Views On YouTube

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. Let me tell you something, friend, it is not loved and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated. It’s better to stand alone with the truth, then to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel and Paul said, ‘If any man preaches any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”

Proverbs 31:8 (NIV)
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
for the rights of all who are destitute

MY MISSION IS NOT TO CONVINCE YOU, ONLY TO INFORM…

Jesus come quick, there is nothing left in society that’s sacred….

#Church #GOD #Christian #Faith #Bible #Jesus #Kids #Truth #Gospel #Enemies

watchman-on-wall

Tagged In

Newsletter

Must Read

Long-Journey-Home-1
One-Thing
Mark-Cahill-Ministries-1
One-Blinding-Vision

Other Sources

USSANews

Latest News

THINGS YOU WERE TAUGHT IN CHURCH THAT ARE NOT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE- Acts17:10,11

By Edward O'Hara | December 4, 2023

There are a whole host of things we find out by reading the Bible ourselves that we have been deceived to believe are in it…

Read More

Watchman Get Ready: NBC News Announcement From August 22, 2023: Biden Is About to Declare a National Emergency Over Climate Change LockDown Compliment of Trump, Google, Twitter X Obama/Biden Admin AKA Satan Soldiers

By StevieRay Hansen | December 4, 2023

HNewsWire: Since the 1960s, modern doomsayers have predicted climatic and environmental disasters. They are still doing so today. As of today, none of the catastrophic…

Read More

Watchman Daily Devotional,The Fact That Throughout the Bible, God Turns What at First Appears to Be Evil Into a Blessing

By StevieRay Hansen | December 4, 2023

Some examples are Joseph being sold into slavery, resulting in saving his family (Genesis 50:202), Jesus rebuke to the Sidonian widow, resulting in her expressing…

Read More

We Now Have Very Credible Documented Evidence That COVID-19 Vaccines Have Caused Massive Deaths and Severe Adverse Affects.

By Dinesh Kaushiva | December 3, 2023

December 3, 2023 The Director of New Zealand COVID-19 Administration has blown the whistle that COVID-19 VACCINES have caused their small country’s massive increases of…

Read More

The Watchman Has Expressed Concerns About the New CDC Director, Dr. Mandy Cohen, Suggesting That She Can Be Having Some Personal Challenges and a Tendency to Be Deceitful. The Watchman Believes That Her Decision-Making May Be Influenced by Demonic Forces

By StevieRay Hansen | December 3, 2023

HNewsWire: Watchman Says Dr. Mandy Cohen, the New Director of the CDC, Is a Master Liar, Has Demonic Problems, and Indicates Satan Directs Her Thoughts…

Read More
Focused-Protection-1
Place Your Ad Here

We make every effort to acknowledge sources used in our news articles. In a few cases, the sources were lost due to a technological glitch. If you believe we have not given sufficient credit for your source material, please contact us, and we will be more than happy to link to your article.

StevieRay Hansen

In his riveting memoir, "A Long Journey Home", StevieRay Hansen will lead you through his incredible journey from homeless kid to multimillionaire oilman willing to give a helping hand to other throwaway kids. Available on Amazon.

6 Comments

  1. Emmett Linck on March 31, 2019 at 9:38 am

    you have brought up a very fantastic points, appreciate it for the post.

  2. minecraft on March 29, 2019 at 12:31 pm

    Excellent goods from you, man. I have understand your stuff previous to and you’re just too fantastic.

    I actually like what you’ve acquired here, certainly like what
    you are stating and the way in which you say it. You make it entertaining and you still take care of to keep
    it smart. I can not wait to read far more from you.
    This is really a great web site.

  3. minecraft on March 26, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    I enjoy what you guys tend to be up too. This sort of clever work and coverage!
    Keep up the amazing works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to our blogroll.

  4. Branden Huntley on March 17, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    Some truly nice stuff on this web site, I love it.

  5. Glenda Schnibbe on March 15, 2019 at 7:57 am

    you have brought up a very good points, thankyou for the post.

  6. eebest8 best on March 11, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    “Pretty element of content. I just stumbled upon your website and in accession capital to say that I get actually enjoyed account your blog posts. Anyway I will be subscribing in your feeds and even I achievement you get admission to persistently fast.”

Leave a Comment