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Pentecostalism In Australia
Pentecostalism in Australia is a large and growing Christian movement. Pentecostalism is a renewal movement within Protestant Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. It emerged from 19th century precursors (such as the Holiness movement, the Higher Life movement, revivalism, the divine healing movement, and the like) between 1870 and 1910, taking denominational form from c. 1927. From the early 1930s, Pentecostal denominations multiplied, and there are now several dozen, the largest of which relate to one another through conferences and organisations such as the Australian Pentecostal Ministers Fellowship. The Australian Christian Churches, formerly known as the Australian Assemblies of God, is the oldest and longest lasting Pentecostal organisation in Australia. The AOG/ACC is also the largest Pentecostal organisation in Australia with over 300,000 members in 2018. Until 2018, Hillsong Church was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillsong Church Worship01
Hillsong may refer to: Churches * Hillsong Church, a church in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and global headquarters ** Hillsong Brisbane ** Hillsong Church Kyiv ** Hillsong NYC ** Hillsong Church UK Music * Hillsong musicians * Hillsong Global Project, musical project by Hillsong Music Australia working with various Hillsong Church campuses around the world * Hillsong Music Australia, music produced by Hillsong Church * Hillsong United, Australian band that originated as a part of Hillsong Church, formed in 1998 ** '' Hillsong United: Live in Miami'', eleventh live album/DVD by contemporary Christian worship band Hillsong United * Hillsong Young & Free, Australian contemporary worship music group from Sydney, Australia, where they started making Christian music in 2012 * Hillsong Worship, Australian band that originated as a part of Hillsong Church, formed in 1983 Television * Hillsong Channel, an American and Australian Christian-based broadcast television network Others * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholicism In Australia
The Catholic Church in Australia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual and administrative leadership of the Holy See. From origins as a suppressed, mainly Irish minority in early colonial times, the church has grown to be the largest Christian denomination in Australia, with a culturally diverse membership of around 5,075,907 people, representing about 20% of the overall population of Australia according to the 2021 ABS Census data. The church is the largest non-government provider of welfare and education services in Australia. Catholic Social Services Australia aids some 450,000 people annually, while the St Vincent de Paul Society's 40,000 members form the largest volunteer welfare network in the country. In 2016, the church had some 760,000 students in more than 1,700 schools. The church in Australia has five provinces: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. It has 35 dioceses, comprising geographic areas as well as the military di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logos Foundation (Australia)
The Logos Foundation was an influential and controversial Christian ministry that flourished in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s under the leadership of Howard Carter, originally a Baptist pastor from Auckland, New Zealand. Logos Foundation was initially a trans-denominational charismatic teaching ministry, primarily Protestant but with some ties to Catholic lay groups and individuals. In 1987, the foundation moved to Toowoomba, Queensland, where there were already associated fellowships and a demographic environment highly conducive to the growth of extreme right-wing religio-political movements. This fertile ground saw the movement peak in a short time, reaching a local support base of upwards of 2,000 people, supplemented by a large mail-order support base. In 1989 Logos controversially involved itself in the Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentecostal
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a movement within the broader Evangelical wing of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God in Christianity, God through Baptism with the Holy Spirit#Classical Pentecostalism, baptism with the Holy Spirit. The term ''Pentecostal'' is derived from Pentecost, an event that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, Holy Spirit upon the Apostles in the New Testament, Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period, Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1–31). Like other forms of Evangelicalism, evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostalism adheres to the Biblical inerrancy, inerrancy of the Bible and the necessity of the Born again#Pentecostalism, New Birth: an individual Repentance (Christianity), repenting of their sin and "accepting Jesus Christ as their personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutherland, New South Wales
Sutherland is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sutherland is located 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Sutherland Shire. History There are two theories for the origin of the Sutherland name: * It is suggested that the name was taken from able seaman Forby Sutherland, who died on Captain Cook's ''Endeavour'' voyage. Sutherland Point at Kurnell is named after him, but there's no direct connection of him to the Sutherland Shire district. * Thomas Mitchell (explorer), Thomas Mitchell as surveyor general in 1835 named the first parish south of the Georges River as the "Sutherland Parish, Cumberland, Parish of Southerland" (South with an "o"). But it appeared in a later government gazette spelt Sutherland, losing the significance of the name. Thomas Holt (1811–1888) purchased 13,000 acres (53 km2) in the 1860 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horizon Church
Horizon Church, founded as Sutherland AOG, and formerly more recently Shirelive, is a Pentecostalism, Pentecostal Christian church affiliated with Australian Christian Churches, the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God denomination. The church's main campus is in the commercial district of Sutherland, New South Wales, Sutherland, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The church's senior pastors are Brad and Alison Bonhomme, and the former Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, is a member of the congregation. Apart from the original church in Sutherland, Horizon also has satellite churches in St Andrews, New South Wales, St Andrews, a south-western suburb of Sydney; Busselton, Western Australia; and Rote Island in Indonesia, and is planning another campus in Western Sydney. History Horizon Church was created by the Assemblies of God in Australia in 1949, under Pastor Norm Armstrong. The first meeting was in the Sutherland School of Arts Hall. In the early 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Morrison
Scott John Morrison (born 13 May 1968) is an Australian former politician who served as the 30th prime minister of Australia from 2018 to 2022. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, leader of the Liberal Party and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Division of Cook, Cook from 2007 until his resignation in 2024. Morrison was born in Sydney and studied economic geography at the University of New South Wales. He worked as director of the New Zealand Office of Tourism and Sport from 1998 to 2000 and was managing director of Tourism Australia from 2004 to 2006. Morrison also was state director of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), New South Wales Liberal Party from 2000 to 2004. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 2007 Australian federal election, 2007 election as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Cook in New South Wales, and was quickly appointed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of over 4 million. The Brisbane central business district, central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Brisbane's metropolitan area sprawls over the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citipointe Church
Citipointe Church, formerly Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield, is a Pentecostal Christian church founded in 1974. It is the founding church of the Christian Outreach Centre network, now known as the International Network of Churches. The founding campus is located in the Brisbane suburb of Carindale, Queensland, in Australia. The church has multiple locations in south-east Queensland, as well as in New Zealand, Bulgaria and the US. Citipointe Worship, formerly Citipointe Live, is the contemporary Pentecostal praise and worship group of the church, formed in 2004. They have released at least 13 albums, which are streamed on Spotify. History Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield was founded under the leadership of pastor Clark Taylor on 23 June 1974, when 25 people met together in his loungeroom in Keperra, Brisbane. The Christian Outreach Centre movement has since grown into an international movement. People In 1996, then pastor Brian Mulheran gave evidence to a Senate commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Network Of Churches
The International Network of Churches (INC), formerly Christian Outreach Centre (COC), is an Australian network of Pentecostal churches, most of them based in Queensland. It was established in 1974 what is now Citipointe Church in Brisbane. It is committed to biblical Christianity, with both the Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed as its foundational beliefs. Background Clark Taylor was born in Queensland in 1937 and became a farmer with little formal education. After attending a Billy Graham Crusade in Brisbane in 1959, he was "born again", and in 1961 started training in Methodism. He contracted cerebral malaria in 1963, but believed himself to be miraculously healed by God in 1967, and during a service at Oxley Methodist Church in Brisbane thought he received a message from God telling him to obey James 5. Later that year he received baptism in the Holy Spirit on the prayers of an Assembly of God pastor. In January 1968, he became an assistant minister, in charge of St. Paul's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C3 Church Global
C3 Church Global, formerly known as Christian City Church International (C3i), is a charismatic movement founded by Phil Pringle and Christine Pringle. The first church was started in Dee Why on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, and is now located in Oxford Falls. As of October 2019, C3 Church Global was a community of over 500 churches. History Pastor Phil and Christine Pringle arrived in Sydney from New Zealand in 1980 to begin a church on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Growing to 400 people within four years, the church began expanding and planting in other cities. The vision of 10 churches in 10 major cities was developed and the movement of Christian City Church began. In 2008, at the "Here We Go" global conference held in Hawaii, Christian City Church announced the name change to "C3 Church". In 2016, due to mounting allegations and public awareness, a prominent branch of the C3 Church Rebranded to Vive Church. C3 operations in Europe have largely b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Houston (pastor)
Brian Charles Houston ( ; born 17 February 1954) is a New Zealand-Australian former pastor and evangelist. He was the founder and senior pastor at Hillsong Church, based in Sydney with locations around the world. He was the national president of Australian Christian Churches, the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God, from 1997 to 2009. In January 2022, Houston stepped aside from his roles within the church, after being criminally charged in Australia for allegedly concealing sexual abuse of a child by his father, of which he became aware in the 1990s. In March 2022, he stepped down as the global senior pastor of the church, after he was found to have breached the moral code of the church in his behaviour towards two women. In August 2023, he was found not guilty of concealing a serious indictable offence. Life and career Early life Brian Charles Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 February 1954. His parents, Frank and Hazel, were then Salvation Army offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
