{"id":1908248,"date":"2023-04-01T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgraced-former-hillsong-pastor-carl-lentz-assumes-role-at-tulsa-megachurch\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T03:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T07:27:45","slug":"disgraced-former-hillsong-pastor-carl-lentz-assumes-role-at-tulsa-megachurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgraced-former-hillsong-pastor-carl-lentz-assumes-role-at-tulsa-megachurch\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Former Hillsong Pastor Carl Lentz Assumes Role At Tulsa Megachurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisgraced-former-hillsong-pastor-carl-lentz-assumes-role-at-tulsa-megachurch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Carl Lentz, a former Hillsong minister, has secured a position at Transformation Church, an extensive nondenominational congregation located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Lentz was released from Hillsong, an international charismatic megachurch based in Australia, three years ago due to \u201cleadership issues and breaches of trust\u201d and \u201crevelation of moral failures.\u201d The founder of Hillsong, Brian Houston, resigned last year due to inappropriate interactions with two women. In leaked audio, Houston stated that Lentz was involved in \u201cmore than one\u201d extramarital affair, and these interactions were \u201csignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Tammy McQuarters, the \u201cexecutive pastor of operations\u201d at Transformation Church, Lentz will begin as a strategist following years of self-reflection. \u201cWe gladly welcome Carl Lentz to our Transformation Church staff,\u201d said McQuarters. \u201cAfter two years of Carl being in his own discovery and healing process, he has shown readiness to use his God-given gifts towards the local church again. We believe in Carl, his marriage, his skill set, and his restoration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lentz, who previously was in charge of the Hillsong branch congregation in New York City, had gained international acclaim as a spiritual adviser to celebrities including Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Kendall Jenner.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have expressed their concern over Lentz&#8217;s return to ministry, stating that his restoration as a Christian and husband does not qualify him for vocational ministry. Brandon Scalf, a pastor and church planter at Heritage Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, remarked in an interview with The Daily Wire that church leaders are held to a high standard of moral excellence, particularly in light of the apostle Paul\u2019s writings to Timothy and Titus in the New Testament. <\/p>\n<p>Scalf highlights that evangelical churches often face the danger of disregarding the requirements listed in the Bible for elders and deacons by augmenting different roles to church leadership such as coordinators and directors. He continued,\u201cGod has very serious warnings in his word for those who decide to do church on their own terms\u2026 I would still say he\u2019s disqualified from public ministry no matter how one chooses to define his role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lentz\u2019s transition occurred soon after Mike Todd, the lead pastor of Transformation Church and a regular presence on social media, drew criticism for stating that Christians are permitted to have an urge to cheat on their spouses. \u201cIt\u2019s okay to feel it. Nobody has ever gotten in trouble for feeling it,\u201d Todd stated. \u201cI can feel it, I can\u2019t act on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scalf argued that the Bible\u2019s plot focuses on humans falling into sin and unhappiness after following their wicked desires. He explained how Jesus stated that \u201cout of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks\u201d and \u201ceveryone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Hillsong minister Carl Lentz landed a position at Transformation Church, a large nondenominational congregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lentz was dismissed from Hillsong, a global charismatic megachurch based in Australia, three years ago over \u201cleadership issues and breaches of trust\u201d and \u201crevelation of moral failures.\u201d Hillsong founder Brian Houston, who resigned last year himself over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1908249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[15738,23291,23289,3689,23293,23292,23290,14117,5528],"class_list":["post-1908248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-tulsa","tag-assumes","tag-carl","tag-disgraced","tag-hillsong","tag-lentz","tag-megachurch","tag-pastor","tag-role"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}