Honestly I had a very difficult time there. It felt like they were trying to hard to sell it to me, with cameras flashing and rock stars playing music. Then the pastor told me from the stage that “Religion sucks”, which made me almost get up and leave.

If they came into Belltown, where their church is located, with the idea of trying to point out where Jesus already is in downtown Seattle, then I could get behind it. But when I’m told that they are there to bring Jesus, to be a light in a very, very dark place, it becomes quite difficult for me to hear what they are saying. Since I go to school in Belltown and live very near it, it doesn’t sit well to hear that Jesus wasn’t there until Mars Hill Church came to town.