Näe yli rajojen!

Menestysteologia ja Torontolaisuus ovat sellaisia asioita, joista tahdon pysyä mahdollisimman kaukana.

Millainen on tuo jonkun riiviön mainostama Hillsong ?
Ehkei hän tiedä mitä hän on mainostamassa…

Hillsongin perusti Brianin isä Frank Houston, jolla oli jonkinlaisia ongelmia synnin kanssa.
Seurakuntajohtajilta vaaditaan paljon, ei jokaisesta ihmisestä ole sellaiseen tehtävään.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Houston
”In 2000 he was advised to resign his ministerial credentials by his own son, Brian Houston the head of the Assemblies of God in Australia, after he had been confronted with a statement and confessed that he had engaged in paedophile sexual activities with a teenage boy while ministering in New Zealand some thirty years earlier.”

Raamattu opettaa ja kertoo kuka on kelvollinen seurakuntaa johtamaan:

1 kirje Timoteukselle:
SEURAKUNNAN JOHTAJAN OMINAISUUDET
3:1 Varma on tämä sana: jos joku pyrkii seurakunnan kaitsijan virkaan, niin hän haluaa jaloon toimeen.
3:2 Niin tulee siis seurakunnan kaitsijan olla nuhteeton, yhden vaimon mies, raitis, maltillinen, säädyllinen, vieraanvarainen, taitava opettamaan,
3:3 ei juomari, ei tappelija, vaan lempeä, ei riitaisa, ei rahanahne,
3:4 vaan sellainen, joka oman kotinsa hyvin hallitsee ja kaikella kunniallisuudella pitää lapsensa kuuliaisina;
3:5 sillä jos joku ei osaa hallita omaa kotiansa, kuinka hän voi pitää huolta Jumalan seurakunnasta?
3:6 Älköön hän olko äsken kääntynyt, ettei hän paisuisi ja joutuisi perkeleen tuomion alaiseksi.
3:7 Ja hänellä tulee myös olla hyvä todistus ulkopuolella olevilta, ettei hän joutuisi häväistyksen alaiseksi eikä perkeleen paulaan.

Koska hän ei ollut: nuhteeton, yhden vaimon mies, raitis, säädyllinen,
niin hänen työnsä seurakunnan perustajana ja johtajana meni hukkaan, ei Jumala ollut tarkoittanut häntä seurakuntaa perustamaan.
Hän lankesi, Jumala odotti häneltä parannuksen tekemistä, mutta hän tahtoi rakentaa seurakuntaa, siitä tuli sitten pulmia, rakennettu seurakunta tuli tekijänsä kuvaksi, väärää opetusta ja haureutta useiden vastuuhenkilöiden elämässä.

Kirje Tiitukselle 1:5 Minä jätin sinut Kreettaan sitä varten, että järjestäisit, mitä vielä jäi järjestämättä, ja että asettaisit, niinkuin minä sinulle määräsin, joka kaupunkiin vanhimmat,
1:6 jos missä olisi joku nuhteeton, yhden vaimon mies, jonka lapset ovat uskovia, eivät irstaudesta syytettyjä eivätkä niskoittelevia.
1:7 Sillä seurakunnan kaitsijan on, niinkuin Jumalan huoneenhaltijan tulee, oltava nuhteeton, ei itserakas, ei pikavihainen, ei juomari, ei tappelija, ei häpeällisen voiton pyytäjä,
1:8 vaan vieraanvarainen, hyvää rakastava, maltillinen, oikeamielinen, pyhä, itsensähillitseväinen;
1:9 hänen tulee pysyä kiinni opinmukaisessa, luotettavassa sanassa, että olisi kykenevä sekä neuvomaan terveellä opilla että kumoamaan vastaansanojain väitteet.



Brian Houston opettaa menestysteologiaa, eli hän ei ole ”taitava opettamaan” eikä hän myöskään tottele tässä ”hänen tulee pysyä kiinni opinmukaisessa, luotettavassa sanassa”.

Alla on linkkejä sivuihin, joissa ihmiset kertovat mitä tietävät Hillsongista. Koettele ja arvostele kaikki lukemasi, kuten uskovien kuuluu tehdä.

http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/indepth/1486a/
Want to be really, really rich?


http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rseaborn/world_worship.html
Brian is the son of Frank Houston, an ex-General Superintendent of the AOG in New Zealand. Frank Houston moved to Australia from NZ in 1977, in controversial circumstances of a sexual nature, and established Sydney Christian Life Centre. Despite the sexual offences committed in NZ, Frank Houston rose to a position of eminence and great respect in the Pentecostal churches, as well as to the most senior position in the AOG in NSW. In 2000, Frank Houston was sacked after the NZ sexual offences became public, offences that were so serious he was not even given the option of quietly retiring. [Sydney Morning Herald, 27/03/2002]

When questioned by the SMH news reporter about the prevalence of sexual misconduct in high places in the AOG, Brian Houston, speaking as General Superintendent of the movement, informed the reporter that, of the AOG's 2000 Australian ministers, no more than five in any year were exposed and disciplined for sexual misconduct. He went on to defend the former AOG New Zealand General Superintendent, Jim Williams, who serves as an AOG pastor in Brisbane but whose licence in New Zealand was permanently revoked for his involvement in “adulterous offences and other indiscretions involving different women over an extended period of years.”


Today, the Hillsong Church, which incorporates Hills CLC and Sydney City CLC, has a collective congregation of over 10,000.
If you are like me and the SMH reporter, by this time you will probably be asking also, “Why is there so much sexual misconduct among the leaders of these highly popular and famous organisations?” And these organisations confidently profess to be Australia’s representatives with a clear mandate from God Himself to lead the nations into His presence in holy worship.




http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Hillsong-farewells-a-lost-sheep-pioneer/2004/11/12/1100227581958.html
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.

http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org/perpsek.htm
Houston, Frank (c.80) AoG pastor - 2000 Internal church investigation confirmed "serious moral failure" while Houston was a pastor in New Zealand. Houston was sacked by the church he helped to found (Hillsong, Sydney). The AoG's national executive vice-president, John Lewis, who conducted the Frank Houston investigation, said the offences were so serious that Mr Houston senior, then in his early 80s, was not even given the option of quietly retiring. Subsequent (2003) investigation by the Sydney Morning Herald and contact with a victim established the offence was sexual abuse of under-age boys. Houston died November 2004. via email and news


http://www.christian-witness.org/archives/van2003/bilby_restor16.html
Jim Williams succeeded Frank Houston as General Superintendent of Assemblies of God in New Zealand, a position which each held for a number of years. Williams was a friend and close confidante of Ian Bilby. The Australian AoG has disciplined both Williams and Houston for admitted serious sexual immorality, which occurred when they held high office in their denominations. Official letters written on 15 November 1993, 21 December 2001 and 24 December 2001 make this abundantly clear.

http://www.onenationparty.org/singleton.htm
Frank Houston - Brian's father. Stood down from ministry after sexual misconduct was revealed dating back to the 1970s in New Zealand. This includes allegations of sexual abuse against a teenage boy. Frank Houston died on November 8, 2004, aged 82. [7] (http://www.christian-witness.org/aog/pf_plp.html)


http://www.rickross.com/reference/hillsong/hillsong11.html
God and politics mix at Hillsong
Australian Broadcasting Corporation/July 14, 2004
By Michael Brissenden


http://www.masterliness.com/a/Hillsong.Church.htm
Hillsong Church
”Pastor Brian Houston has preached what he calls the Prosperity gospel as advanced in his book You Need More MoneyYou Need More Money is a Christian book written by Australian author Brian Houston, the pastor of Hillsong Church. In the book, Houston argues that God will bless Christians with greater financial wealth, but only if they have enough faith. The book is an. This has proved to be attractive to many people in the outer suburbs of Australian cities and regional areas. Yet it has also attracted a degree of controversy, with some critics claiming that the church is too centered around greed, consumerism and individualism.”

”The move to teach Word-faith theologyThe Word of Faith movement or word-faith theology developed in the latter half of the 20th century in mainly Pentecostal and Charismatic churches. Its beginnings trace back to an early twentieth century evangelical pastor, E. Kenyon (died 1948), who preac has meant that the church is now more CharismaticFor a description of the personality trait, see Charismatic authority Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe those Christians who believe that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first century Christian Church, such as glossolalia than Pentecostal in its theology.”

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