Former Hillsong Pastor, Carl Lentz Thanks Wife For Staying

Former Hillsong Pastor, Carl Lentz Thanks Wife For Staying

Former Hillsong Pastor, Carl Lentz Thanks Wife For Staying: Carl Lentz, a former Hillsong NYC pastor, recently praised his wife during her birthday week by taking to social media to express thanks for her choice to remain with him despite his adultery.

Lentz, 44, posted a lengthy message and a black-and-white photo of his wife, Laura Lentz, to Instagram on Saturday. He wished Laura a good “birthday week” and thanked her for being by his side.

“Happy 45th birthday, WEEK Laura Lentz,” he wrote. “To watch my wife weather these storms of life in the past few years has been inspiring. It would have been so easy and understandable for her to have walked out and ended our marriage. Yet she chose the harder road. The one that has included so much pain as she has had to endure the consequences of my decisions.”

Pastor Lentz did not clearly identify the “decisions” he mentioned, but he said “addictive patterns and sin” in the post.

Three years ago, Lentz announced, after being fired from Hillsong, that he was unfaithful in his marriage. After Lentz’s announcement, a Muslim New York City designer named Ranin Karim publicly declared that she had an affair with the megachurch pastor. A former nanny also accused him of sexual misconduct.

In his birthday week post, Lentz angrily defended his wife’s character, pushing back on allegations that she was “complicit” in his immoral behavior and lamenting that “some even fabricated lies about her.” Responding to such assertions, Lentz declared, “That answer is emphatically no.”

He praised his wife’s decision to “hold on to her faith,” remarking that “even in the aftermath of so much disaster, her strength has not wavered.” Noting that the couple has lost friends over the years, he stated that his wife has “had to endure a lot of this road on her own, courageously.”