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[quote=Anonymous]In high school, a friend invited me and another mutual friend ("Katie") to a party at her church. I had a different friend who sometimes threw parties at her church, which were regular parties where she just happened to rent her church's social hall for the occasion, so I thought this would be something like that. It was not.

Her parents dropped us off in the youth service, where a Christian rock band was playing a concert and everyone was swaying and dancing in semi-darkness wearing glowstick necklaces. I was not a kid who went to concerts and the church we barely went to was traditional Protestant, so this was definitely uncomfortable for me, socially and religiously. Katie and I found our way to the wall and stood awkwardly while the friend who invited us closed her eyes and praised Jesus and sang along to all these weird songs I'd never heard. It might have just been one really long song - they all sounded the same. There were lots of other kids along the wall and then after a while, the music stopped and the youth pastor came out to give a sermon about Jesus and salvation. It turns out, everyone was supposed to invite two friends to "save" and he actually acknowledged that in his sermon and thanked the kids for bringing their friends. On the drive home, our friend and her parents asked me and Katie what we thought (I don't remember if we answered) and then talked all about how great their church is and how there's so many active teens to socialize with, unlike a lot of other churches. It was very much a "look, our church is fun and hip; there's rock music and our youth pastor is so cool and relatable" pitch. It was my first and only interaction with an evangelical mega-church and it was so uncomfortable.[/quote]

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