By Elizabeth Prata
The Atlanta Passion Conference is a Christian conference aimed at older teens and college-aged students. I live not too far from Atlanta, and I live near a University town. Lots of young folks around here flock to the annual Passion Conference in Atlanta at this time of year. This year's conference just closed. I have received several questions about the conference in real life and online. Here is some information about this conference I've written in the past. Hopefully it will bring to light the major concerns with this conference. I do not recommend it for several reasons, each of which are explored in the links below.
Passion's cumulative effect is bad. Young attendees are drawn to a large event with the tantalizing enticement of rock music, purposely separated from senior pastors, elders, and parents for several days, drenched in a fishbowl of adrenaline-fueled zeal, given half-truths to feed on, told by adored celebrity musicians and pastors they are a special generation, diverted their focus from service in church or campus to solving a global problem, encouraged to sacrifice their money for social justice causes, (end global slavery, end global poverty...) and often turned back to their home churches or campuses carrying new leaven.
Personally, I have a problem when conference organizers specifically prohibit parents/guardians from attending with their child(ren).
Examining Christine Caine's 2019 Passion sermon: It's straight Word of Faith
Are there too many Conferences?
Discerning a Gnostic Conference: Passion 2013 part1, Kim Walker Smith & Jesus Culture
Discerning a Gnostic conference: "Passion 2013," part 2, Louie Giglio
Discerning a Gnostic conference: "Passion 2013," part 3: Conclusion
Passion Conference introduces Catholic Mystical practices to impressionable youths
Do the Passion 2013 members know who the real slaves are?
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