Marc Fennell investigates the successful, but scandal-plagued megachurch Hillsong, stepping back into the world of Pente | dG1fNW4zSnBvTHRGdEU
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00:00 Let's talk about church.
00:03 Cool.
00:04 Jazz hands.
00:05 What's your first memory of church?
00:14 This is me, age 5.
00:17 That is notorious pedophile preacher Frank Houston and this stage that we're standing
00:21 on would eventually become the mega church known as Hillsong.
00:26 It was the biggest.
00:29 The largest church, during the largest conferences.
00:32 I look back and it was horrible.
00:35 Abuse.
00:36 The fall of Hillsong, it's left a vacuum.
00:39 Either you're at Hillsong or you're in competition with Hillsong.
00:42 It's not as though Brian Houston is the only story in Australian Pentecostalism.
00:48 Hundreds of people times probably thousands.
00:51 You were born for it.
00:53 Across the globe there's 30 different locations.
00:58 I left, never go back, never talk about it.
01:01 For some this faith has changed their lives for the better.
01:04 I didn't know where to go.
01:07 And for some people it's destroyed them.
01:09 We could hardly pay mortgage repayments.
01:11 A trail of bodies.
01:13 I wound up in hospital.
01:17 It's a lot.
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