Hillsong’s Carl Lentz, Megachurch Pastor Who Ministered Justin Bieber, Fired and Admits Cheating on Wife
Many Christians claim that marriage will keep a person from sexually sinning. Many Christians claim that marriage will make a person more godly, mature, responsible, and ethical and that it is necessary to foster those qualities in a person.
But did being married, and being a parent, keep this guy from cheating on his wife? No. No it did not.
(Link): Muslim woman claims she was in a relationship with Carl Lentz, unaware he was a pastor
Nob 6, 2020
Carl Lentz, the celebrity magnet of a pastor who brought the global megachurch Hillsong from Australia to the United States, has been fired, acknowledging on Instagram that he cheated on his wife.
The leader of HillsongNYC, who once ministered to Justin Bieber and a bevy of other celebrities and sports stars, wrote: “When you lead out of an empty place, you make choices that have real consequences. I was unfaithful in my marriage, the most important relationship in my life and held accountable for that.”
Lentz and wife, Laura, who met as students at Hillsong’s training college in Sydney, arrived in New York in 2010 to spread the church’s style of mass gatherings, a slick online reach and Grammy-winning Christian rock music throughout the U.S.
The church is popular among millennials and others.
The couple lives in Montclair, New Jersey. They married in 2003 and have three children.
More – Off site:
(Link): Laura Lentz makes first public statement following husband’s infidelity, Hillsong firing
(Link): Hillsong Founder Says Carl Lentz Had Multiple ‘Significant’ Affairs in Leaked Audio: Report
(Link): Disgraced Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz might get payoff despite ‘multiple affairs’
‘The church has a policy against sex outside of marriage. [says Lee Martin, Carl Lentz’s former dog walker]
‘So he’s telling people how they should live their life, but doing whatever he wants in his own life.’
(Link): Laura Lentz makes first public statement following husband’s infidelity, Hillsong firing
May 2021 Update:
(Link): Sex Abuse Allegations by Carl Lentz’s Former Nanny Put Spotlight on Hillsong Culture
More (on this blog):
(Link): Hillsong Church Rife with ‘Inappropriate’ Sex, Members Claimed
(Link): Tithe Money Funded Hillsong Pastors’ Luxury Lifestyles: Former Members by H. Frishberg
