Voters get rare glimpse of PM as he allows cameras inside church

Scott Morrison has allowed cameras inside his Pentecostal church for the first time.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with his wife Jenny on Easter Sunday at the Horizon Church in Sutherland. Picture: Gary Ramage

Australian voters have got a rare glimpse of Scott Morrison practising his faith in celebration of Easter.

The Prime Minister attended his own Horizon Church, in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, for an Easter Sunday service in his electorate of Cook this morning.

The Prime Minister allowed photographers and camera operators into the Pentecostal church with him for the first time.

Church elders greeted the nearly 1000 faithful with hugs, compliments and “Happy Easter! Happy Resurrection Sunday” as they arrived.

Inside, three rows from the front and with wife Jenny by his side, the prime minister sang and clapped to the opening number celebrating a glorious day.

“Today is a reminder of the great hope and the reason for that hope is the reason we celebrate today,” Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney.

Photographers were allowed into the 90-minute service with the PM for the first time.

“It’s a very special time for me and my family but I know for people around the country and frankly all around the world.” Senior pastor Brad Bonhomme said ahead of the service he would deliver a message of hope.

“We all go through times when you feel as though things have been messy but the resurrection is there to show us the future that ... there’s always hope on the other side,” he told reporters on the steps of the church.

He intended to share his own story about his mother dying in January of a sudden, unexpected stroke.

She was in Perth and he was stuck in Sydney, having missed the last flight across the vast continent when he heard she had gone to hospital.

“That four-and-a-half-hour flight felt like a Sydney-Dallas flight, it took forever,” Pastor Bonhomme said.

“But thankfully she was still on life support and I had the opportunity to say my goodbyes and express my gratitude.

“So you just want to talk about in disappointment and sadness there’s always hope and we’ve got to look to the future. That’s kind of our Easter message.”

Mr Morrison has attended the church for a decade.

Mr Bonhomme said the church sees the Morrisons as family and aims to provide them with a space to express their faith.

“We just treat them like every other family,” he said.

Mr Morrison and wife Jenny (right) joined about 1000 other congregants. Picture: AAP

Mr Morrison said the church had been “a bedrock of our family” since they moved to the Shire.

“They’re a wonderful community and they reach out all across the Shire and further beyond that and always have,” he said.

“They’ve just been such a tremendous support for us personally and it’s a very important part of our lives.” The prime minister has spent the bulk of the Easter weekend in his home town of Sydney.

Labor leader Bill Shorten attended an Easter Sunday service in Brisbane this morning, accompanied by his wife Chloe and her parents former Governor-general Quentin Bryce and husband Michael, at St Andrews Anglian Church in Indooroopilly.

It’s been a stop-start campaign with Mr Morrison and Mr Shorten calling a truce to electioneering on Good Friday and again on Sunday - although that has been stretched with both making public appearances.

- with AAP