Perhaps the Pastor forgot to tell the church goer that even an
AOG preacher can be a Homosexual. So who say that when you believe
in Jesus mean YOU ARE ASSURED TO BE FREE
FROM HOMOSEXUALITY.
Frank Houston, founder of Sydney Christian Life Centre which
subsequently become the famous Hillsong Church was a HOMOSEXUAL. It
was known throughout Australia when his case surface in the media.
Of course, the church try to cover up. (see article below)
Hence sometime preacher are too quick to judge.
However when their peers commit such act, they are silent
about it. They chose hide the reality from their people.
I am reminded of the Da Vinci Code in the last scene when the
Catholic cardinal express his thank to Langdon and mentioned that
the church is inperfect too. Time to cast the HOLIER THAN THOU
ATTITUDE aside.
Frank Houston, considered the father of Sydney's Pentecostal
churches, began preaching to nine adults and five children and
built a congregation of thousands that is still growing.
Mr Houston, who died on Monday aged 82, founded the Sydney
Christian Life Centre in 1977 at Waterloo and spent 22 years
building a movement that became the Hillsong church.
He was the most senior Assemblies of God figure in NSW before
was sacked by his own son after he admitted having sexually abused
a boy in New Zealand more than 30 years ago.
Yesterday, Hillsong and Mr Houston's son, Brian, the national
president of Assemblies of God, welcomed him back to the fold to
send him out properly.
"He was a man who perhaps made some big mistakes a long time
ago," Brian Houston told more than 1000 mourners in Waterloo's
Hillsong assembly hall. "But everyone here knows that he was a man
who stood for what he believed in."
Mr Houston was credited with helping to convert the jockey
Darren Beadman.
Mourners yesterday included were the federal MP for Greenway,
Louise Markus - a member of Brian Houston's Baulkham Hills Hillsong
church - and the federal MP for Mitchell, Alan Cadman.
The Deputy Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, also
attended.
A friend, Jonathon Wilson, said one of Mr Houston's favourite
sayings was "To hell with the devil". "I don't believe the church
would be where it is today if it wasn't for his life and for his
ministry," Mr Wilson said.
William Francis Houston was born in Wanganui, New Zealand, and
began training to become a Salvation Army officer shortly after
turning 18.
He founded his first Assemblies of God ministry at Lower Hutt in
1960, later became the superintendent of the New Zealand Assemblies
of God, and set out for Sydney in 1977.
The church he built at Waterloo merged with his son's church at
Baulkham Hills to become Hillsong after he exposed himself as a
pedophile.
Brian Houston told mourners his father was the greatest
evangelical preacher he had ever seen. "In my biased opinion, he
was in a class of his own."
Frank Houston, whose wife, Hazel, died six months ago, suffered
a massive stroke last Sunday night and died about 8am on
Monday.
