Celeb-ianity

A few years ago I stopped going to the Hillsong conference. But it had little to do with the event.

When I did attend it was great. I heard from some of the best ministry and leadership minds on the planet. I got to be around tens of thousands of believers. I got a week off work!

But the event became less and less about God and more about the talking heads. The conference became less and less about connecting with God and more about seeing the person from TV or the book-cover live.

And I'm not alone.

Christians do it all too often. With conferences. With camps. With youth events. Even with churches.

We get swept up in the pseudo-celebrity and let our focus slip from Jesus.