Axed Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz has ended hypothesis a couple of attainable return to the pulpit by asserting the launch of a brand new podcast.
Lentz was fired in November 2020 after admitting to adultery and has spent the previous few years engaged on his marriage and spending time along with his household.
After avoiding the limelight for a while, final yr he revealed that he had joined the crew at Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a “strategist”.
Last week he and spouse Laura teased a “new chapter” was coming of their life, sparking hypothesis that Lentz may need been planning to return to frontline ministry.
That isn’t the case, nevertheless, as he has now confirmed on his Instagram that they’re launching a brand new podcast as a substitute.
The “Lights On” podcasts releases on 4 June and can delve into his journey in direction of restoration within the hopes that it’s going to assist different folks heal from their “dangerous decisions”.
In a video posted to Instagram in regards to the new podcast, Lentz stated, “No I’m not again. That man is gone.”
“My decisions, and the highway towards restoration taught me how useful it’s to have folks share vulnerably the impression of their dangerous decisions, the ache they brought on, and the ache they suffered that led them to make these decisions, and what they’ve found could be useful and therapeutic,” he stated.
Lentz stated he hoped “that in sharing these issues from my story and asking others to share theirs, it is going to be useful, hopeful and therapeutic.”
He added, “I’m grateful for the place we’re at the moment,. To be assured of the long run, content material within the current and healed sufficient to talk to the previous is miraculous. If we will make it, anyone can … thanks for all of the love and assist!”