The Kingdom | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Marc Fennell investigates the successful, but scandal-plagued megachurch Hillsong, stepping back into the world of Pente | dG1fNW4zSnBvTHRGdEU

Transcript

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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