So to those people, I pray you can forgive me and that over time I can live a life where trust is earned again." "I would have liked to say this with my voice, to you, in person because you are owed that. "I am deeply sorry for breaking the trust of many people who we have loved serving and understand that this news can be very hard and confusing for people to hear and process," he continued. "I now begin a journey of rebuilding trust with my wife, Laura and my children and taking real time to work on and heal my own life and seek out the help that I need." This failure is on me, and me alone and I take full responsibility for my actions," he wrote. "I was unfaithful in my marriage, the most important relationship in my life and held accountable for that. In a lengthy post shared to his Instagram page last week, Lentz confessed to cheating on his wife following his dismissal. Inside Justin Bieber's Church: Hillsong's Culture of Homophobia and Anti-Feminism "That yes, he had a failure, but let's not completely just throw him to the curb and say, 'OK, great, you did all these great things, but you did this failure and now you’re completely not in the graces of God or whatever.'" "So, while it's disappointing, right – we can all be disappointed, no one is more disappointed than his family and his wife – but, let's not erase the good that he did," she continued, getting a little choked up. Carl was a part of me wanting to come back to church." While they aren't close, Bailon said she did attend Hillsong New York and acknowledged "the impact that he had on my life. "So I do think we need to reassess how we view people in leadership in our churches and more than anything, I think we also need to remember that even if they do wrong, let's not completely erase all the good that they did," she continued.īailon explained that she and her husband Israel Houghton - a worship leader himself - know Carl. "I really do believe the only person that we should be looking up to in that way is God and Jesus himself 'cause that's the only person that's gonna save me." "I really do believe that no preacher, no pastor, no singer is higher than I am," she explained. On Wednesday's episode of "The Real," Bailon said that while it's okay for Lentz's congregation to be "disappointed" in his actions, she believes people might be expecting too much from church leadership.
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