Ex-Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz on ‘sobriety’ and ‘humiliation’ after dishonest scandal

Disgraced Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz is maintaining his followers updated about his life following his firing from the megachurch in 2020 amidst a public dishonest scandal.

Forward of the brand new FX documentary collection “The Secrets of Hillsong” — premiering Could 19 — Lentz, 44, wrote a long post on Instagram and revealed the place he stands together with his spouse, Laura.

The previous pastor admitted he cheated on his partner of 20 years again in November 2020.

“For the final 3 years my total focus has been preventing for my spouse and my youngsters,” he started his social media memo.

“With a view to try this, looking for sobriety and therapeutic needed to run parallel with these objectives,” wrote the superstar pastor.

Lentz went on: “All I wished was to show to my spouse and children that I might present up for them like I had by no means accomplished earlier than.”

“Though we’ve a protracted strategy to go, with quite a lot of work, quite a lot of honesty and quite a lot of prayer, we’ve discovered ourselves in a fantastic, blissful and intentionally sincere place,” he stated.

He then shared that he and Laura celebrated their twentieth wedding ceremony anniversary on Could 5.

Lentz and his household are featured within the FX collection by which he confessed that the marital commemoration couldn’t have occurred with out “humiliation, embarrassment and heartache.”

“A part of the therapeutic from that heartache led us to the choice to be part of a documentary that we don’t management, that we don’t have any say in and that we haven’t even seen but,” he stated.

He added: “We’ll see it when the world does. We weren’t enthusiastic about blame shifting or accountability deflection, we concentrate on my errors and the context for what transpired.”

Lentz additionally divulged that he’s not preaching and his “function is to assist in giving perspective and perception the place I can.”

“I can say I perceive it and my relationship with Jesus in a approach that I couldn’t from the pulpit. Repentance and life change is confirmed over time with constant selections and that’s a highway I stay up for,” he scribed. “It actually makes me surprise if that is what all of this ache was all about.”

The scandalous and controversial church was additionally explored in The Put up and Discovery+’s 2022 documentary, “Hillsong: A Megachurch Uncovered.”

The present took a deep dive into the historical past of the church and its founder Brian Houston.

Houston, 69, additionally had a tough 12 months and was accused of embezzling funds and protecting up baby intercourse abuse.

Houston additionally stepped down as Hillsong’s director final January and formally resigned from the group two months later following a misconduct investigation.

The inner inquiry got here to the conclusion that Houston had behaved in an inappropriate method in the direction of two ladies.

Houston based Hillsong again in 1983 in Australia and crossed paths with Lentz in 2010.

Hillsong has attracted superstar devotees resembling Justin and Hailey Bieber, Selena Gomez, Kendall Jenner and Chris Pratt over time.