Okay, this is a different kind of ‘’tea’’. Carl Lentz, famous for once being Justin Bieber’s spiritual advisor and pastor, didn’t leave the public in the dark as to why he was fired from Hillsong East Coast (which is part of the international chain of Hillsong churches). After Hillsong church’s founder Brian Houston announced that Lentz was fired partially over “moral failures” via a statement issued on Nov. 4, the former pastor revealed that this meant his failure to stay faithful to his wife, Laura Lentz.
He went on to detail what it means to “accept the calling of being a pastor,” until he eventually made his shocking admission: “When you lead out of an empty place, you make choices that have real and painful consequences. I was unfaithful in my marriage, the most important relationship in my life and held accountable for that. This failure is on me, and me alone and I take full responsibility for my actions.”
It doesn’t sound like this infidelity is splitting up the family, however. “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,” Lentz continued.
In addition to being a lead pastor at the church, Lentz gained notoriety for his spiritual mentorship of Bieber, and even lived with the pop star at one point in New Jersey in 2014. Although the former pastor threw shade at Justin’s engagement to his now-wife, Hailey Baldwin, in 2018, it appears that Bieber still has a relationship with the Lentz family.