How mosh pits helped Christian organizations recruit teenagers in the 1990s

Matthew Hall
11 min readMay 21, 2020

I am tossed backward and forward, left and right, up and then down, with the ebb and surge of the mosh. I am a sardine, pitching in a sea of pumped-up, sweaty, hormonal, youth. I am one of 5000 people packed into the State Sports Centre at Homebush (part of Sydney’s 2000 Olympic Games site) going (totally) off to the band on stage in front of us. The group…

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