Live Love Lead: Your Best Is Yet To Come!

 Shirley J.        Adult Non-Fiction Memoir            The Beginnings of HillSong Church/Music Memoir

Live Love Lead: Your Best Is Yet to Come! by Brian Houston    272 pages

Brian Houston was raised up in the HillSong Church his Dad established in the HillSong area of New Zealand.  They later moved to Australia and established another HillSong Church there.    Brian describes his life growing up, his father's ministry, living in New Zealand and Australia, meeting his wife (they both grew up in the church, Brian's ministry and outreach and the development of their musical ministry known around Australia as the HillSong sound then later HillSong as it is known world-wide today.   Brian talks about establishing HillSong churches around the world, visits and ministering at each, how during his first sermon in a high school gymnasium he was losing his way in his sermon he was so nervous, he saw a man looking down at his phone knowing he was losing his congregation's attention he thought what can I do?  Then he saw a rope hanging down from the ceiling that the kids would climb, he ran over, grabbed it and swung out in the audience and started preaching like his spirit was on fire.  He woke that crowd up as he swung up to the guy looking at his phone.  That man brought in over 30 converts telling them all about his preacher who swung out in the audience on a rope!  In faith Brian divulges some deeply personal family information that was a catastrophic tragedy to his family and the church family but he goes on to say how God got him and all of them through it though it was devastating and still humiliating to this day, but his faith is strong and God has gotten them all through it to show bad things don't just happen to the other guy it happens to every one.  A tale of faith and love, offering guidance, uplifting advice, sharing how to live according to Bible principles, sharing the word of God, proclaiming the miracles of the Bible and God's never ending love for His children who are called by His name, who will become leaders of men when adhering to a Biblically principled life.     I recommend this book to teenagers on up.