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‘It’s a cult’: Ex-Hillsong members claim church demanded ‘slave labor’

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megachurch Hillsong, who continue to come forward with stories painting the institution as more “slave labor” than sanctuary after the high-profile firing of pastor Carl Lentz. “It’s like you work for a major company,” Nicole Herman, who helped found Hillsong LA in 2013, told The Post of the church’s leadership.

A former service pastor — “I was beneath [the senior pastors] but I did everything” — Herman says that, in her seven years working for the Australia-born temple chain, she routinely watched its cult of personality enchant wide-eyed parishioners.

The “abuse of volunteers and real, amazing people,” by Hillsong leadership to fulfill their “petty needs” (a practice called “honoring”) reminded her of instant Cup Noodles: Leaders think.

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