After months of incrementally resigning from his various positions at Hillsong, the megachurch’s founder Brian Houston has finally resigned in full.
and an ongoing court case accusing Houston of hiding his late father’s sexual abuse of children — all of which the church has denied.“In September last year, I learned it was necessary for me to step aside as a director of all Hillsong boards during this season, enabling me to give attention to these charges,” Houston, 67, wrote
posted to the Australia-based church’s website. “But recently, we made a decision that may come as a surprise to you, and I want you to hear it from me directly.” The decision for Houston to “step aside completely” from the leadership of the multinational church hefounded in 1983 came in December, at the recommendation of “Hillsong’s external legal counsel.”
“The court processes are likely to be drawn out and take up most of 2022 ,” Houston explained. “We have talked about the effects of the situation with my father, which go back many years up to the current legal case, and the impact this has had on me emotionally. The result is that the Hillsong Global Board feel it is in my and the church’s best interest for this to happen, so I have agreed to step aside from all ministry responsibilities until the end of the year.
Bobbie, 65 — who is not charged in the yearslong case, which claims Brian concealed his father’s pedophilia — will “remain fully engaged in church life” during Brian’s “sabbatical,” as the couple’s daughter
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