Hillsong Paris

Today was the second time I went to Hillsong Paris and it is always an experience to remember! The venue is in a humungous theater, with a big disco ball on one side.  The worship is a mix of English and French singing, but the lyrics of both languages are always up on the screen.  Throughout the entirety of the welcome and the message there is a translator up on stage repeating sentence by sentence of what the pastor is saying.  I think it is one of the most radical things i have ever experience but they really do help to accommodate as many people as possible at this church.  Yet it is very interesting to see who actually enjoys it or not.  The first week I brought a friend who was raised in the Greek Orthodox Tradition, and she didn't enjoy the upbeat service that Hillsong provides, while this week I brought two other people who thoroughly were intrigued and enjoyed the joyful and passionate way that Hillsong presents the word.  Yet it is also interesting how I know of the band "Hillsong United" so I think this church is the bomb diggity, yet no one else has heard of these types of churches or of this worship group, so they are just going into it as if it were just another normal church.  Also many people, at least in the hostile i live in, do not go to church at all.  The first time i went it was this big spectacle because "someone was going to church" which is weird, because being raised going to church all my life, and going to a christian school, "going to church" is not weird.  People asked me all day, "did you go to church," "what did your learn," etc.... It was definitely a sight...something that i am not familiar with at all....Well that was my church spiel, just a glimpse of some religious experiences of mine so far.