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Former Hillsong lead pastor shared what she would like to say to local churches everywhere… and it’s powerful reading
Julia A’Bell and her husband Joel left Hillsong in 2019 after 19 years at the Church.
It’s no secret that Hillsong has been in crisis over the last few years. The mega-church has been deeply harmed by horrific revelations that former-leader Frank Houston sexually assaulted an Australian boy and by accusations that his son Brian Houston, who took over as leader, covered this up. Plus the well-publicised sacking on celebrity pastor Carl Lentz in 2020 after it came out that he had had an affair.
All of this has been bubbling away in the press, but it has once more come to the fore with FX’s new docuseries, “The Secrets of Hillsong” on Disney+, that was released in the UK in mid-July.
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