God could also be forgiving, however Hillsong Church could also be much less so.
A day after it was revealed that movie star pastor Carl Lentz was fired from star-studded Hillsong for “management points and breaches of belief,” the specifics of his “ethical failures” have come to mild: Lentz cheated on his wife.
“I was untrue in my marriage, an important relationship in my life and held accountable for that,” Lentz wrote of his affair to his 680,000 followers in an Instagram post of his household Thursday, which had already accrued over 43,000 likes as of this writing. “This failure is on me, and me alone and I take full duty for my actions. I now start a journey of rebuilding belief with my wife, Laura and my youngsters and taking actual time to work on and heal my personal life and hunt down the assistance that I want.”
On Wednesday, Religion News Service first revealed the scandal by way of an e mail to members of megachurch Hillsong relating to his dismissal.
The founding pastors, Brian and Bobbie Houston, took Lentz’s termination as a church “hypepriest” personally, with Brian writing in his email “While I have little question in my coronary heart that that is the fitting plan of action, I should point out Bobbie’s and my private disappointment, as now we have recognized Laura her total life and Carl for properly over 20 years.”
The e mail omitted any adulterous particulars; Brian said that specifying the act could be improper.
“Please perceive that it might not be acceptable for us to enter element concerning the occasions that led to this determination. However you could be assured that this determination was made with the intention to honor God and pastorally look after you, our East Coast household, Pastor Carl and his household,” Houston wrote.
Lentz, 41, is known for dressing like a hipster and baptizing Justin Bieber within the house of former Knicks participant Tyson Chandler.
