Thousands of people attended Parachute again this year. For me, it was a mixed bag – some good Christian artists – some bad artists – and some disturbing behaviour.
I've never understood mosh pit activity. 3news reported one fan as saying, "It was crazy. People were just flying around. I saw one dude get laid out and we had to go help him up. I smoked a few people too. It was mean." The same report said, "Mainstage security were working overtime to drag scared and injured people – mainly young females – out of the pit and into safety. There was an influx of admissions to the medic tent during the [Saturday night] concert and one person was sent to hospital as a precaution after getting crushed in the pit."
I watched from the stands as young men and women flailed around, smashing into one another with no thought of who might be hurt. How can this kind of behaviour be condoned at a "Christian" event?
To be fair, the majority of concert-goers do not identify with this conduct and there are some great things that happen at Parachute – Louie Giglio was certainly a highlight!
One of the greatest offences of the event was the Catholic Mass. How can so-called evangelicals be comfortable with the re-sacrificing of Jesus Christ in the Mass? The leaders of the Reformation and hundreds of Protestant Christians died as martyrs upholding their belief that Jesus Christ's death was totally sufficient to save sinners saying that the RCC Mass called into question the adequacy of Calvary's sacrifice.
Will I go to Parachute again? I'll certainly be thinking twice.
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