![]() He was still at the helm of Air NZ, still earning more than $4 million per annum, and, almost certainly, still a key participant in the Fellowship of the Upper Room. Five years ago, Luxon’s political career was just a gleam in Prime Minister John Key’s eye. ![]() Why? Well just think about Luxon’s answer for a moment or two. Where I come from, however, we would call Luxon’s answer “Jesuitical” – meaning “practicing casuistry or equivocation using subtle or oversubtle reasoning crafty sly intriguing”. So, Christopher Luxon didn’t lie to RNZ’s Suzie Fergusson on Wednesday morning (1/12/21) when he said he hadn’t been in a church for five years. It is certainly a place of evangelical Christian fellowship, but if by ‘church’ you mean a dedicated house of worship, with a steeple, stained-glass windows, wooden pews and an ornately carved pulpit, then, no, the Upper Room is not a church. THE FIRST QUESTION: “Is the ‘Upper Room’ a church? Strictly speaking, the answer is ‘No’.
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