…Dooley maintained that the picture Discovery Plus is painting of Hillsong is “far removed from … the truth of who we are as a church.” The 68-year-old recently stepped down as Hillsong global senior pastor as he fights a criminal charge in Australia. They’re now stepping in for Brian Houston, who founded Hillsong in 1983. and we’ve felt the pain of that,” Dooley said in the Feb.19 message.ĭooley and his wife, Lucinda, served as youth pastors in Sydney before leading Hillsong South Africa in 2008. “There are those who are against what God is doing. He seemed to compare the resistance Nehemiah faced to Hillsong’s controversies in recent years. While preaching for a global simulcast Sunday to Hillsong churches worldwide, Dooley tied his message from Nehemiah 4 to the situation surrounding Hillsong. The three-part series, coming to the streaming service on March 24, purports to demonstrate how the Australia-based global evangelical church network has toed the “fine line between cult and culture,” according to recently released trailer. Hillsong Church interim global senior pastor Phil Dooley contended this week that the upcoming Discovery Plus docu-series titled “Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed” paints an unfair picture of the church. (Link): Hillsong leader criticizes upcoming Discovery Plus docuseries for overlooking church’s good deedsīy Jeannie Ortega Law, Christian Post Reporter “It makes you feel like your belief system is valid in the modern world,” Hardy says, referring to Lentz’s cutting-edge haircut, tattoos and clothing, which lured in millennial and Gen Z congregants. When Houston was looking to expand into America, charismatic young pastor Lentz, now 43, came to his attention in 2010. Hillsong originated in Australia in 1983, founded by Houston, who grew up in dad Frank Houston’s Sydney-based Pentecostal church. “It is a culture of ‘protect the brand at all costs,’” Elle Hardy, author of “Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World,” says in the documentary. Houston, 68, stepped down as the church’s director in January (amid a court case accusing Houston of hiding his late father’s sexual abuse of children - all of which the church has denied), and he resigned for good March 23, after an internal misconduct investigation, which found Houston had behaved inappropriately towards two women. …“Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed,” a new three-part docuseries premiering March 24 on Discovery+, dives into the jaw-dropping history of the religious institution and its founder Brian Houston, who has been accused of everything from embezzling church funds to covering up child sex abuse. (Link): Bombshell ‘Hillsong’ doc details sex scandals that battered celeb megachurch Brian has repeatedly denied the allegations. …In the church’s most recent controversy, Brian Houston - who launched Hillsong in Australia in 1983, when it was known as Hills Christian Life Centre - announced he’d be stepping down and focusing on a legal battle in Australia related to charges that he concealed child sex crimes committed by his late father, former preacher Frank Houston. “Featuring interviews with Hillsong insiders, megachurch experts and Ranin Karim, the woman whose five-month affair with celebrity senior pastor Carl Lentz led to his downfall, the series will explore the high-profile, star-studded church’s alleged exploitation, abuse and cover-ups,” Discovery+ said in a press release. Lentz and Hillsong did not immediately return PEOPLE’s requests for comment about the docuseries. “It was the most toxic thing I’ve ever had to deal with,” Karim says in the newly released trailer for Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed, which Discovery+ will stream in three parts. Soon he publicly admitted to being unfaithful to his wife Laura, whom he married in 2003 and with whom he shares three children.Īmid the fallout, Ranin Karim, a New York woman who said she met Lentz at a Brooklyn park in May 2020, alleged she was his mistress. Once a spiritual confidant of Justin Bieber, Lentz was ousted from Hillsong in November 2020, ending a 10-year tenure because of what the church described as “moral failures.” Now a Discovery+ docuseries, Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed, delves deep into the headlines - including former pastor Carl Lentz. Hillsong Church was a star-studded house of worship, but scandal has overshadowed its charismatic brand of Christianity in recent years. The Discovery+ docuseries premieres on March 24 (Link): Carl Lentz’s Alleged Mistress Speaks Out in Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed Trailer: ‘Toxic’ Carl Lentz’s Alleged Mistress Speaks Out in Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed Trailer: ‘Toxic’
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