Two High Profile Hillsong Pastors Starting New Church, Despite Being ‘Misunderstood’
Three months after Peter & Laura Toganivalu (Toggs), the Global Pastors of Hillsong Young & Free (and also Brian and Bobbie Houston’s daughter and son-in-law) announced their resignation from Hillsong church, the two have revealed that they’re starting up their own church that will decidedly NOT be affiliated with the infamous Australian money cult.
Reportedly, Laura and Peter left after being very dissatisfied with the handling and revelations of the Hillsong scandals over the last two years, despite benefitting from some of the generous wages Hillsong paid staffers. The couple were making nearly $320,000 a year from Hillsong, not including honorariums, speaking fees, and another salary from the Shiloh ministries, which some sources peg at another $250,000.
The two say they want to pioneer a church in Sydney, Australia, despite their motives for doing so likely being questioned and taken the wrong way. They describe their journey as if they ‘grew up in this incredible household (Hillsong)’ and now have just turned eighteen and are about to go out into the world and ‘spread our wings.’
Naturally, they spent a significant portion of the video lamenting that they’ll be ‘misunderstood’ and are asking Jesus for the courage to be “misunderstood” by folks who will ‘create their own narratives’ around this decision to launch a new church in the heart of Hillsong territory (and likely peel away hundreds of parishioners), comparing themselves to Jesus who was also ‘misunderstood.’
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Jesus wasn’t ‘misunderstood, Jesus was flatly rejected because man loved ‘darkness’ rather than ‘light’.
Anybody making their comparison clearly has no business teaching any one, anything, at all, ever, and never, again 💡
Given your use of punctuation, what do you know about teachers?