(ChurchLeaders) Former Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz is reportedly entering into an outpatient treatment program for depression, anxiety, and pastoral burnout. Lentz was fired from his position at Hillsong’s New York City campus in November for “moral failures” and “leadership issues.”
“Over the years I did not do an adequate job of protecting my own spirit, refilling my own soul and reaching out for the readily available help that is available,” Lentz wrote in an Instagram post in which he admitted to infidelity. “When you lead out of an empty place, you make choices that have real and painful consequences,” Lentz wrote in the November 5th post.