Brian Houston: Biography, Career, Books and Much More

Learn through this interesting article about the life and work of Brian Houston. An Australian, Christian leader and servant of the Lord through his pastoral evangelist ministry, as well as the author of several Christian spiritual help books.

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Brian Houston

Brian Houston is a servant of God with pastoral ministry born in New Zealand but with Australian nationality. This minister of God has become known worldwide for being the founder of the Hillsong church, with branches all over the planet, the main headquarters being located in Sydney, Australia.

Brian Houston also presided at the national level for the Australian Christian churches in the period from 1997 to 2009. These Christian churches correspond to the sectional Assemblies of God Australia.

At Hillsong Church, Brian Houston is an evangelist and the Senior Pastor of the congregation. The Hillsong Christian Church or Las Colinas Christian Life Center, according to its name in Spanish, was founded by Houston together with his wife in August 1983.

The Christian Center Las Colinas or Hillsong is an evangelical congregation of charismatic current and since its foundation it has become one of the most internationalized Christian churches in the world. As well as one of the most recognized worldwide for its musical compositions of contemporary Christian praises.

Songs that are performed by the Australian musical bands: Hillsong Worship and Hillsong United, as well as by the musical group of young Christian worshipers Hillsong Young & Free. Groups that belong to the record label Hillsong Music Australia and whose songs have been performed in most evangelical Christian churches in the world.

Brian Houston imprinted on his congregation a doctrine literally attached to the scriptures of the Bible. Considering that the Bible is the true word, with authority of God to be applicable to the daily life of people.

This Houston-led congregation advocates tithing without imposing it and believes in the power of the Holy Spirit to endow believers with God's spiritual gifts.

Biography of Brian Houston

Brian Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, on February 17, 1954. The son of Frank Houston, a New Zealand Protestant pastor, and Hazel Houston.

Both parents at the time of Brian's birth were serving as officers of the Salvation Army of the New Zealand nation. When the little boy was three years old they became integral members of the Assemblies of God in his country.

Later Brian's parents were Christian leaders exercising pastoral ministry in a church in Lower Hutt in the Wellington Region, on the North Island of New Zealand. In this town Brian Houston lived his childhood together with his only brother and his three sisters.

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Your family and personal life

Brian Houston completes his university studies in his native country. And while attending a Christian assembly at Papamoa Beach in Tauranga, a coastal city in New Zealand, he meets young Bobbie.

Bobbie and Brian Houston are united in marriage in 1977, from this marriage union three children are born: Joel, Ben and Laura. Currently, the Houston couple resides in Sydney, Australia, specifically in the suburb of Glenhaven.

Bobbie and Brian Houston's three children are married and are part of the Hillsong Church leadership.

The Ministry of Brian Houston

Already married, Brian Houston moved with his wife Bobbie to Australia in 1978. They reside in the city of Sydney, the capital of the State of New South Wales, Australia.

In Sydney, Brian begins his ministerial service as an assistant to his father Frank Houston. Who was Pastor of the Christian Life Center located in the suburb of Darlinghurst.

Chronology of his ministerial career

Brian Houston's ministerial career continued chronologically as follows:

  • 1980: Establishes an evangelical Christian church on Sydney's Central Coast.
  • 1981: He exercises his ministry in a church located in the suburb of Liverpool in Sydney.
  • 1983: He founded the Las Colinas Christian Life Center or Hills Christian Life Center. Which worked in a rented premises within the Baulkham Hills public school in the northwest of the city of Sydney. The first preaching took place in the Sunday service on August 14 of that same year.
  • 1997: In May of this year, Brian Houston is elected to the presidency of the Assemblies of God in Australia. Today these assemblies are called the Australian Christian Churches.
  • 1999: On May 10 of that year Brian is appointed senior pastor of the Christian Life Center in Sydney, replacing his father Frank Houston.
  • 2000: In February of this year, collaborated in the creation of the network of Pentecostal Christian churches in Australia. The alliance of all these affiliated Christian churches currently has 200 believing members, and Brian Houston was the first president of the alliance. Since then, Houston has also become a member of the Association of Pentecostal Ministers of Australia (APMF).
  • 2009: Brian decides not to run again for the presidency of the Assemblies of God in Australia. That year Wayne Alcorn is elected to the presidency.
  • 2018: In September of that year, the Hillsong Christian Life Center, founded by Brian Houston, ceased to be an alliance with the Christian churches. From there Hillsong begins to function as an autonomous institution with characteristics of a Global and Charismatic Church. The separation of the Hillsong Christian Life Center and the Australian Christian Churches ACC (acronym in English), was carried out on amicable terms.

Hillsong Church Music Ministry

Brian Houston is currently Executive Producer for Hillsong Music Australia HMA. This organization is the Ministry of the Hillsong Church, which has achieved great popularity worldwide over the years since the autonomy of the church.

Within his discographic successes the albums of the Australian musical band Hillsong United can be mentioned. A band that grew out of the Hillsong Church Youth Ministry.

In the same way, the musical successes of the band Hillsong Live are counted. This band represents the Hillsong Church Worship Ministry, incorporating the entire team of worshipers from the congregation.

Hillsong Music Australia HMA records a live album each year. Songs from the annual album are sung that year at Hillsong church congregational venues around the world. Of the most popular songs of Hillsong Music Australia HMA the following can be mentioned:

  • Powerful to save or Mighty to Save, title in English.
  • Praise the Lord or Shout to the Lord, English title.

This last song was presented in the special edition entitled "Idol Gives Back", of the American Idol television program of the year 2008.

The literary work of Brian Houston

Brian Houston, in addition to being an evangelical pastor and leading a ministry in the service of the Lord, is also a writer of several helpful books. Some of his literary titles that can be mentioned are the following:

  • Get a life, printed in the year 1996.
  • You can change the future, printed in the year 1999.
  • You need more money, printed in the year 1999.
  • From the year 2002: How to build good relationships.
  • How to Live a Blessed Life, printed in 2002.
  • From the year 2003: How to prosper in life.
  • How to make the right decisions, printed in 2004.
  • From the year 2005: How to live with health and fullness.
  • Selah, printed in the year 2006.
  • For this reason, printed in 2006.
  • Selah II, printed in the year 2007.
  • This is what I was born for, printed in 2008
  • Live Love Lead, printed in 2015

There's More (2018)

This literary title by Brian Houston was printed in 2018. The author on the book cover invites us not to freeze when we get a refusal from the world.

Because when this happens God is telling us the opposite of what the world is talking about. Through the pages of the book Hay Más, Houston describes how, with the power of God, you can have faith and overcome all earthly expectations.

This is only achieved if you surrender control to God and follow his path. Because God enables and empowers us to make the impossible possible through faith, Brian tells us in this book that:

Reach higher and go beyond what you could have ever imagined, giving all the glory to God.

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