Robert Morris, the founder of Southlake-based Gateway Church, one of the nation’s largest congregations, appeared before a judge Friday in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on charges of sexually abusing a child in the 1980s .
The hearing was very short. The Osage County, Oklahoma judge acknowledged Morris’s presence in the courtroom and set the date for the next hearing, which will be Sept. 4. He had already entered a plea of not guilty.
It was Morris’s first public appearance since he stepped down from Gateway Church after the allegations came to light…