Hillsong: We're not a cult - 2009-05-24

Hillsong: We're not a cult May 24, 2009, Tuck Thompson, Courier-Mail

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CELEBRITY evangelist Brian Houston has defended his Hillsong ministry against allegations it is a "cult-like" organisation as the Sydney megachurch opened a "campus" church on Brisbane's southside yesterday.

He also denied Hillsong had misspent Commonwealth grant money or recruited students in NSW schools.

Mr Houston and his wife Bobbie were installed as the new senior pastors of one of Brisbane's largest Pentecostal churches, the 1000-member Garden City Christian Church.

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