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I will give you all my worship.

I will give you all my worship.

I'll give you all my praise.

You know I want to worship.

You know how worthy of my life. This is heaven bent.

I'm Terrigine Stevens.

Episode 8, The Heart of Bethel. I will give you all my name.

You are, I want to worship.

You are, I'm worthy of my praise.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. On this final episode this season, what's truly at the heart of Bill Johnson's California

megachurch? And is it a cult? I'll share my own conclusions. And in general, I am not going to pussyfoot around my feelings because I hope

that up until now, that I've created a space and allowed the time for you to form or maybe

solidify your opinion about Bethel Church in Reading, California.

All right, let's get into this.

I 100% started this journey.

Not even neutral, I would say I started it with the feeling that this was going to be pretty

easy to tie up at the end with a pretty little bow.

Because I believe then, and I still believe now, that Bethel is a place where real healing takes place.

Emotional, for sure. Physical, maybe.

It's also a place where there is a lot of joy, a lot of singing and dancing and friendship and community and meditation.

But it's also a place that has raised some really serious red flags for me.

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