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But w- what were you gonna say?

Well, I mean, yeah, there's, there's three, maybe I would say fourth, Jesus Culture.

I don't know that they're linked to a specific church, but they're definitely a worship brand.

So Jesus Culture, Elevation, Bethel, Hillsong.

Hillsong has multiple brands across their generations.

Um, it's kinda like saying, like, you know, Ford and Chevy are the only people that make cars.

Um, May of 2008, I was finishing my junior year of college, and I was, got hired as a worship leader at my university.

That was the time when the Jesus Culture album came out with How He Loves on it.

And so obviously, that's making waves.

My youth pastor had found out that I had got hired as a worship leader at my university.

But it was really interesting to watch 'cause all of a sudden in this moment you've got this, this Revival Alliance, which is the, what they call these, like, six couples that man- that are basically becoming the para organization that co-signs revival in America.

This is being birthed in this moment.

You know what I mean? You've got Bethel, like, um, Jesus Culture is just popping off, which is gonna be the only reason Bethel has a chance of popping off on their own stuff.

We're watching the impetus of the movement in 2008.

Maybe, I don't know, but maybe because his son has a hearing impairment, he's had empathy- Yeah ... to believe for miracles of healing in the area of deafness.

I remember many years ago after COVID, Joe and I escaped Australia, and we went to California to Jesus Culture for a conference, pastors conference in Sacramento.

And on the way back, we thought, "Well, we'll just go to the Bethel Church on the way home up to Redding." It's in the middle of nowhere.

It's like going to Chinchilla.

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Kim, thank you so much for being with me today.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I don't want to leave you without an answer.

So I would say generally speaking, if I could just advise maybe church leaders at first, what you want to do is be looking for any music by Bethel Music or by Jesus Culture or IHOP Kansas.

Those are probably three of the main entities that are producing the music.

And how you can look at that is if you look on CCLI, you can kind of look at who published it.

And so that's where we run into problems.

So Bethel is a big one, but another one you've probably heard of is Jesus Culture.

And they're another good one to look at if you're looking for bad examples.

They came out of Bethel's broader coalition.

Oh, come to the altar.

That's a big one.

And then Jesus culture.

They came up out of Bethel.