Megachurch Pastor Fired for Viewing Porn Talks About Overcoming His Addiction, New Pastor Job

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(PHOTO: FACEBOOK/Scott Crenshaw)Pastor Scott Crenshaw preaches at the Tabernacle of Praise in Fort Worth, Texas, in this photo from Dec. 10, 2017.

Pastor Scott Crenshaw said he felt like a rock star when he was senior pastor of the multicampus New River Fellowship Church based in Weatherford, Texas.

After helping Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston grow its young adults worship ministry, Crenshaw went onto become New River’s senior pastor and helped expand the congregation from one campus to three and from about 500 members to over 2,500.

But that all came to a crashing halt in 2016 when his departure from the church for “viewing inappropriate images” on his church computer made national headlines.

It was then that Crenshaw and his family were forced to seriously address a problem affecting their family that data show a majority of Christian men have some sort of struggle with — an addiction to pornography.

“Technology was my downfall but now technology is helping my restoration process,” Crenshaw told The Christian Post in an interview on Monday.

A little over two years removed from his fall from grace, Crenshaw is now serving full-time as an interim pastor at Lake Country Church in Fort Worth, Texas, a role he began about six weeks ago.

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