Gateway Church is a non-denominational, evangelical Christian multi-site megachurch based in Southlake, Texas, near Fort Worth.

[7] In November 2018, CBS News listed Gateway Church as the fourth largest megachurch in the United States with about 28,000 weekly visitors.

[8] In April 2024, the church, while denying liability, settled a 2020 lawsuit brought by the family of a child who alleged that five pastors had concealed the sexual abuse she received from a youth leader in 2018.

[10] In February 2025, a former youth pastor at Gateway Church, Ruel "JR" Barbee, was arrested for child abuse.

[13][14] Morris described his behavior as mere "petting" while the victim alleges eventual "rape by instrumentation"[15] (penetration that is not intercourse).

Former Gateway elder, Tom Lane, received and responded to my email, acknowledging that the sexual abuse began on December 25, 1982, when I was 12 years old".

[17] Evangelical Daystar Television Network announced it was removing all Robert Morris programming from its broadcast schedule.

[23] In August 2024, the church announced that a fourth high-ranking member, executive pastor Kemtal Glasgow, was asked to resign over an unspecified "moral issue".

[29] In early 2019, Gateway Church announced it was starting a ministry inside the Coffield Unit, the largest prison in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.