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'It's like revival meets Woodstock'

His target market is sceptics, not Christians, visiting preacher Greg Laurie tells Steve Kilgallon.

With the drawing power of an international rock band and a similar price tag, preacher Greg Laurie was this weekend hoping to pack Auckland's Vector Arena for two nights for "a conversation" about God.

Two hundred churches of all denominations chipped in $685,000 to pay for the American's Auckland Harvest prayer meeting, although Laurie says he'll earn nothing and the trip should only break even.

Laurie is pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, a church that seats 5000 and attracts 15,000 over a weekend and beams its service to satellite churches around the state.

There's no miraculous healing or speaking in tongues. "I've had people say it isn't like I'm a preacher, and I take that as a compliment. Sure I want people to hear what I'm saying, but... I don't think I'm what you'd expect from a normal preacher from America." Deeply tanned, wearing a crisp shirt, jeans, suede boots and a wide smile, and accompanied by two equally well-dressed offsiders, Laurie offers answers as smooth as his dress sense, and even interrupts himself with a self-aware apology. "Sorry if I'm giving too long answers. I'm a preacher, you ask me a question, I give you a sermon."

The former graphic designer never intended to preach, stumbling on his faith at 19 when he wandered into a prayer meeting at his college while he was questioning the meaning of life. Until then a hard-partying teen whose alcoholic mother was married and divorced seven times, he says he's "seen the rough side of life, up close and personal".

Laurie's Harvest missions have attracted around four million punters and he's preached to 40,000 Kiwis on previous visits. His research includes asking his interviewer what the drug P is, but he says the big questions are universal – death, guilt, suffering and what it all means.

His "conversations" last night and tonight, accompanied by Christian rock bands, offer an answer to questions he's tussled with himself, particularly when his eldest son Christopher was killed in a car crash three years ago.

"It affected my faith. I would say it deepened it, and a faith that cannot be tested cannot be trusted," he says. "If Jesus Christ hadn't come through for me in the worst crisis of my life, I would've stopped preaching, I would see no point. Why give false hope?"

He has counselled families thinking he understands their pain. "But when you lose a child, it's the worst-case scenario. I wouldn't say I'm over it... I'm getting through day by day. It hurts ... I don't have an answer and I'm not afraid to say I don't.

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