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Another married Hillsong East Coast pastor has left the megachurch following a sex scandal. Darnell Barrett — the creative director of Hillsong’s Montclair, New Jersey, chapter — resigned on Tuesday after allegedly sharing a revealing post-workout selfie with a church volunteer and trying to play it off as a mistake, the Daily Mail reported. “Hey! I think I might’ve added you to my close friends list by accident. I’m so sorry.

Hillsong Church is back in the news once again — and just like last time, it’s for all the wrong reasons.

interview with GQ, the pop superstar opened up about how he feels when pastors let fame go to their heads.“I think so many pastors put themselves on this pedestal,” the devout songwriter, 27, told the publication without making a direct reference to Carl Lentz, the disgraced former Hillsong megachurch pastor who Bieber once counted among his best friends.

temporarily served as lead pastor for Hillsong’s NYC branch in the wake of Carl Lentz’s adulterous fall from grace — is leaving and embarking for sunnier shores, to set up his own religious institution in Hawaii. “My family and I will be moving to Hawaii in August, where I will begin the process of planting a local church close to where my brother lives with his beautiful wife and little boy,” Termini, 38, said in an Instagram post Thursday, before launching into praise for Hillsong founders

firing of adulterous NYC superstar pastor Carl Lentz — which exposed rifts across the church, fraud accusations and congregant allegations of abuse — Hillsong’s senior pastor and co-founder Brian Houston has for the first time publicly said that he’s sorry for it.His apology was made in conjunction with the release of changes the Australia-based institution plans to make at its East Coast branches following an independent investigation, launched after news of Lentz’s affair broke in

It seems like Carl Lentz dragged the whole of Hillsong Church down with him amidst his infidelity scandal.

resignation announcement.As a result of growth, Houston continued, Gary Clarke and his wife will begin helping with “the global side” and “invest[ing] into the pastors.”Clarke has been with Hillsong for over two decades and claims to have healed lepers, the deaf and people with polio through prayer alone, the Daily Mail reported in 2019.

The Post’s exposé on the megachurch pastors’ funding their luxury lifestyles with tithing money, former NYC lead pastor Esther Houston — wife of Hillsong founders Brian and Bobbie Houston’s eldest son, Joel — has seemingly erased her internet presence.

EXCLUSIVE: Hillsong, the church that has had celebrity worshippers including Justin Bieber, Kevin Durant, and Selena Gomez, has been mired in scandal after its New York pastor Carl Lentz admitted an extramarital affair last year.

for adultery.

$20 million lawsuit against the church, as well as The Post’s reporting on alleged misuse of tithing money by pastors at the Australia-based institution’s American branches.“If anyone out there is even interested. Hillsong is NOT being sued for 20 million dollars.

slave labor” and homophobia, ex-congregants and staff are now claiming that pastors used tithe money to help fuel their decadent lifestyles. At Hillsong NYC, many pastors frequently splurged on fancy restaurant meals, designer clothes and weekly manicures while living in the same Kent Avenue Williamsburg high-rise and zipping around the neighborhood on ATVs, disgusted former members told The Post.

Yet another set of high-profile pastors have quietly left scandal–ridden Hillsong Church and wiped their social-media profiles of photos during their time there, indicating a mass exodus at the once-popular megachurch. Desiree Noel Robertson, 39, and Blaze C.

Setting the record straight. Justin Bieber is clearing the air after rumors swirled that he’s studying to become the newest pastor of Hillsong Church in the wake of Carl Lentz‘s November 2020 firing.

Setting the record straight. After Justin Bieber’s Hillsong Church pastor’s cheating scandal, the 26-year-old “Intentions” singer revealed that he is no longer a member of the celebrity-famous megachurch.

scandalized megachurch Hillsong under unclear circumstances. Reed Bogard, 38, and his wife Jess Bogard, 35, the lead pastors of the Australia-based institution’s Dallas branch, are stepping away from the once celebrity-beloved international worship chain after over a decade of employment there. “Hey church, hope you’re doing well,” Reed says in a cutaway clip included in an hourlong Sunday sermon recorded live this weekend.

Justin Bieber recently took to Instagram to fire back at claims of him studying to be a minister at the Hillsong church. For the unversed, the Holy singer has been long-affiliated with Hillsong church but was reportedly cutting ties with the group after his longtime pal pastor Carl Lentz admitted to infidelity.

refute claims that he had entered the ministry at the controversial Hillsong Church, whose celebrity pastor Carl Lentz was recently ousted after revelations of alleged adultery. “IM NOT STUDYING TO BE A MINISTER OR ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE TO THAT,” he wrote, in all caps, in his “stories” on Instagram, over the top of a screenshot of a Page Six headline last week.

Justin Bieber is opening up about his faith.

Justin Bieber is firing back at a report claiming he is studying to be a minister at the Hillsong church.

From the looks of this news, it appears Justin Bieber is ready to take the next step on his path towards spiritual fulfillment!

Ex-pastor Carl Lentz couldn’t have picked a better time to be excommunicated from Hillsong Church, as many former members of the religious institution are now accusing it of “slave labor”!

until recently celebrity-beloved institution told The Post in response to an exposé on former members, who called the Australia-born temple chain a “cult” and claimed they were made to perform unpaid “slave labor” while a part of it. “We were very concerned to learn that any church member, volunteer or staff member would feel unsafe.

The drama continues as more skeletons emerge from Carl Lentz’s closet…

megachurch Hillsong, who continue to come forward with stories painting the institution as more “slave labor” than sanctuary after the high-profile firing of pastor Carl Lentz. “It’s like you work for a major company,” Nicole Herman, who helped found Hillsong LA in 2013, told The Post of the church’s leadership.

Hillsong Church remains under fire — and it’s not just former pastor Carl Lentz‘s incredible fall from grace that has people talking this time.

 Justin Bieber ,  Chris Pratt  and  Katherine Schwarzenegger , and  Selena Gomez  who was a member until recently.News broke this week that Gomez’s relationship with Hillsong Church is over. The Daily Mail reported that the Rare Beauty founder cut ties with the megachurch after the cheating scandals of celebrity pastor of Hillsong, Carl Lentz surfaced.

Severed ties. Selena Gomez quit Hillsong Church after Carl Lentz’s cheating scandal. For those who don’t know, Lentz, the pastor of stars like Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, was fired as the head of Hillsong Church was fired in November after he cheated on his wife, Laura, whom he shares three kids with.

involving embattled pastor Carl Lentz, the Daily Mail reported Monday.“Selena considers herself a Christian,” the Daily Mail reported, citing sources from Australia’s Daily Telegraph.

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Carl Lentz is getting some help.

Carl Lentz takes off his shirt while lounging at the beach on Thursday (December 3) in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

Carl Lentz takes off his shirt while lounging at the beach on Thursday (December 3) in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

So you’ve probably heard by now about the firing of celebrity pastor Carl Lentz, the spiritual adviser to celebs like Justin Bieber who became the face of the Hillsong Church in Hollywood.

was fired last month, then admitted he cheated on his wife.New York City-based designer Ranin Karim, 34, alleged to The Post that she had a months-long relationship with the married pastor and father-of-three which started last summer, claiming he was “like a drug” to her.But in a leaked audio recording of a meeting of church executives and top donors held around November 19, Australian Hillsong founder Houston revealed alleged that Lentz, 42, had “more than one affair.” “A staff member found a