'Rockstar pastor' Carl Lentz was adored by A-listers and athletes for years—until, he says in the bombshell new docuseries, he became Hillsong's fall guy.
—understandably so, as it seems to amplify Lentz’s self-victimizing narrative. In May 2021, about six months after Lentz was terminated from the church, Kimes published aaccusing Lentz of “manipulation, control, bullying, abuse of power, and sexual abuse.” She explained, “Having told almost no one before this, I am just now able to share what I experienced in their home as the result of intense therapy.
The Lentzes previously denied Kimes’ allegations in a statement at the time, and they double down on this in the docuseries: “I am responsible for allowing an inappropriate relationship to develop in my house with someone that worked for us,” Lentz says, but “any notion of abuse is categorically false.” He continues, “There were mutual adult decisions made by two people who lied profusely, mainly to my wife. It’s an issue because I was a boss, this person was an employee.
is the one who confronted Lentz on his inappropriate sexual relations and oversaw Lentz’s removal, but Houston, too, would be ousted from the church in 2022 for his own infidelities—and currently faces up to five years in jail for allegedly helping to cover up his father Frank Houston’s sexual abuse of children. In 1977, Frank founded the original iteration of Hillsong, the Sydney Christian Life Centre, but stepped down when pedophilia allegations against him emerged in 1998.
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