The email came from Phil Dooley; lead Pastor of the Hillsong Church in Cape Town, South Africa. He was inviting me to be the motivational keynote speaker at the church’s January 2014 international leadership conference to be attended by over 1,000 people.

At first I was skeptical so I checked it out. The church was indeed real; founded in 1983 and now has branches in Europe, Africa and the United States that welcomes about 30,000 worshippers weekly. [Read more…]