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Stephen Carl Lentz (born November 6, 1978 [1]) is an American former celebrity pastor who was also a spiritual advisor to celebrities such as Justin Bieber. [2] He was the lead pastor of Hillsong NYC until November 4, 2020, when he was fired by Hillsong Global Pastor Brian Houston for "leadership issues and breaches of trust, plus a recent revelation of moral failures."
The church was thrown into the spotlight with the November 2020 firing of former pastor Carl Lentz relating to infidelity and other areas of misconduct. [ 4 ] The annual Hillsong Conferences was held for the first time in New York in 2013, and annually since, [ 5 ] using Barclays Center in Brooklyn, with a seating capacity of 17,000.
Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christian association of churches based in Australia. The original church was established in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, as Hills Christian Life Centre by Brian Houston and his wife, Bobbie Houston, in 1983.
Lentz co-founded and served as the head pastor at Hillsong NYC -- an offshoot of the original Australian megachurch -- from 2010-2020, eventually becoming something of a star in his own right as A ...
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Brian Houston speaks at the grand opening of a Hillsong church in Atlanta on June 6, 2021. (Marcus Ingram/) The church announced Wednesday that Houston would be stepping down entirely.
The Secrets of Hillsong, a new four-part Hulu documentary series from FX and Vanity Fair, explores the rise and fall of a megachurch -- and the charismatic pastor at the center of it all.Most of ...
Brian Charles Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 February 1954. [3] [4] His parents, Frank and Hazel, were then Salvation Army officers.When Houston was three his parents joined the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and began pastoring a church in Lower Hutt, near Wellington, [5]: 62 where Houston and his brother and three sisters spent their childhood.