Blessed are the … VIPs.
Scandal-ridden Hillsong Church was so obsessed with being the hippest ministry that it operated its church companies like a nightclub to make sure that its most trendy followers bought particular treatment, a former insider tells us.
The church as soon as held its weekly New York companies at live performance venue Gramercy Theatre and we’re informed VIP members had been capable of reserve seats — whereas the common flock needed to anticipate hours to get a great place.
“They rented out the house each Sunday to carry their companies and so they had like this VIP congregation with reserved spots for celebrities, influencers and nightlife folks within the know,” a supply who works nightlife informed Web page Six.
“There have been most likely, like, 100 seats reserved for notables and common folks would line as much as get one of many few seats from the again row … I’m speaking they’d present up an hour or two earlier than the church opened,” the supply stated, “A man like me, I may present up 5 minutes earlier than and get a seat. I’d hit up one in every of my buddies and be like, ‘Hey, I’m coming to service with a plus-one,’ and so they’d have two seats for me simply like that. It’s a type of issues the place they had been treating the church with a nightclub mentality.”
There have been loads of different less-glamorous spots out there.
At its peak, Hillsong counted regulars like Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Chris Pratt and and Selena Gomez as a few of its well-known members.
The church has lately been rocked by revelations that the founding father of its US wing, Carl Lentz, had a collection of affairs.
It not makes use of Gramercy Theatre, and has been online-only since COVID-19 hit.
A rep for the church didn’t instantly get again to us.
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